Pension Plan Puppets · Mar 6, 2019
Wednesday’s FTB: Brad Marchand should be punished for tampering
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesThe Toronto Maple Leafs have signed Auston Matthews to a five year contract, and are still working on an extension for Mitchell Marner. Yesterday, Boston Bruins pest* Brad Marchand poked his nose - though it isn’t that hard for him to do that, really - into the contract talk:
Some leagues take tweets and quotes like this seriously. After LeBron James said he would like to play with Anthony Davis - the New Orleans Pelicans player who asked for a trade in December - the NBA sent teams memos about tampering, and back in 2014 the Toronto Raptors were fined $25,000 after local rapper/team ambassador Drake said this at a concert that summer: