Not often does a player opt to receive punishment after winning a game, but that’s what Brad Marchand has done for much of his brief tenure with the Panthers.
The former Bruins winger has been on the wrong side of a postgame tradition following Panthers’ wins, getting pelted by plastic rats from a few of his teammates before they leave the ice.
That tradition continued when the Panthers defeated the Hurricanes in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals to win the Prince of Wales Trophy on Thursday. Following the on-ice celebration, Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov, and Evan Rodrigues waited for Marchand in front of the exit off the ice before shooting plastic rats at him.