As you’ve now heard a million times this evening, Brad Marchand and Lars Eller are not friends.
After the Capitals’ 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins this evening, nobody could quite get enough of asking the pair about each other and their second-period incident where Lars Eller dropped the gloves and was ready to fight, but Marchand didn’t want to.
For Marchand, the reason why was easy.
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“I haven’t looked at the stats sheet, but I really don’t feel I need to try to prove anything,” Marchand told the media in the locker room after the game. “[Eller] plays maybe 10-12 minutes a night. I’m playing 20. So…and a 1-0 game and to go on the power play…it doesn’t make a lot of sense so that’s the way it is.”
Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Brad.
In the Capitals locker room, Eller said that “there’s not a lot of integrity in his game” of Marchand.
For the record, Eller averages 16:55 of time on ice and won the Capitals the Stanley Cup last season.
