Fourteen years after helping the Boston Bruins win a Stanley Cup as a pugnacious rookie, Brad Marchand finally got to hoist hockey’s greatest prize once again.
Except this time, the 37-year-old forward wasn’t donning a black-and-gold sweater.
Marchand’s whirlwind season came to a close on Tuesday night in Sunrise, Florida — with the former Bruins captain helping the Panthers win their second straight Stanley Cup by way of a 5-1 clinching victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
“I definitely appreciate it way more,” Marchand told ESPN postgame of winning a second Stanley Cup. “I mean, when you enter your first year you don’t understand how difficult it is and the trials and tribulations you have to go [through] to be part of something like this.