Brad Marchand
Until his recent back-to-back 85 point years and then a 100-point season last year, Brad Marchand wouldn’t have held such an esteemed spot in terms of milestones.
However, with that level of points production, he suddenly finds himself in plenty of conversations about just how high he can go on the all-time points leader list and whether come the end of his Boston Bruins career, he deserves a look-in up in the rafters.
This season, expect to see him climb above the likes of Milt Schmidt, Peter McNab, Cam Neely, and Terry O’Rielly on the all-time points list for the Boston Bruins. The next on the list is teammate, David Krejci so it’s hard to predict whether he reasonably has a shot at ninth overall in the list given we expect Krejci to also be tallying points.
Brad Marchand’s 559 points in 681 games should easily become at least 600 points and at least 700 regular season games before the next year is out.
Looking to the schedule Marchand will, suspensions (a real possibility) and injuries aside, make it to 700 games on a November 16th road-trip to play the Toronto Maple Leafs, who the Boston Bruins have defeated the past two seasons in the first round of the playoffs.
Given that recent history, the encounters have become heated affairs and it probably suits Marchand best. This past playoffs, he racked up 9 points against them; safe to say he saves some of his best hockey for those encounters with Toronto.
Hitting 600 points, based on last season’s production rate of 1.26 could potentially happen as early as game 33 for the Boston Bruins; away to the Tampa Bay Lighting on December 13th. That month looks to be shaping up as quite the month for possible Boston Bruins milestones at this rate!