Brad Marchand might be the ultimate pest, but he's not the original.
Not even in his own family.
The Boston Bruins left wing writes in a first-person story published last week in The Players' Tribune that he got his inspiration from his younger brother, Jeff.
When Marchand and his friends were shoveling snow for hours on the lake near his childhood home outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jeff would be inside messaging girls on the computer while claiming to be doing homework. When the lake finally was cleared, Jeff would show up with stick in hand, ready to play.