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NHL Department of Player Safety hits Brad Marchand with latest punishment

By Ty Anderson
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 28: Brad Marchand #63 of the Boston Bruins skates against the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center on December 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The NHL Department of Player Safety renewed their friendship with Bruins winger Brad Marchand on Friday night.

On the heels a heated skirmish with the Kraken’s Oliver Bjorkstrand in the third period of Thursday’s 6-5 win in Seattle, Marchand has been hit with a $5,000 fine for what the league’s disciplinary department has called a “dangerous trip.”

  • The “dangerous trip” designation is often what the NHL says instead of terms such as “slew foot.”

    This is Marchand’s fourth slew footing/dangerous trip incident throughout his career, and first since a slew foot on the Canucks’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson back in Nov. 2021.

    That incident earned Marchand a three-game suspension, while Marchand was tagged with a $10,000 fine in 2017 for a dangerous trip on the Red Wings’ Niklas Kronwall and a $2,500 fine in 2011 for slew footing Penguins defenseman Matt Niskanen.

  • This is Marchand’s first violation of the 2022-23 season, and his first time getting dinged by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety since his $5,000 fine for slashing Carolina goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov in last year’s first-round series between the Bruins and Hurricanes.

    Marchand, who finished Thursday’s win with a goal and an assist in addition to his late-game dust-up with Bjorkstrand, has 18 goals and 51 points through 49 games this season.

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Ty Anderson is a writer and columnist for 985TheSportsHub.com. He has been covering the Bruins since 2010, and has been a member of the Boston chapter of the PHWA since 2013. Any opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of 98.5 The Sports Hub, Beasley Media Group, or any subsidiaries. Yell at him on Twitter: @_TyAnderson.

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