Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Brad Marchand vs Matt Niskanen
Bruins forward Brad Marchand slew-foot the former UMD Bulldog and current Penguins defenseman Matt Niskanen at the 03:19 mark of the third period behind the Penguin net. Marchand was given a two minute penalty for the slew-foot. I think you've got to give the smaller Marchand credit, instead of hiding behind the referee and begging for the ref to rescue him from the much bigger Penguins defenseman, Marchand stood up and answered the bell and fought the bigger Niskanen.
You can see from the video that neither player's first job is to fight and it ended up being more of a hug feast than anything. I would probably give the edge in the fight to the former Bulldog.