2025 4 Nations Face-Off

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Brad Marchand
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Position
Forward
Date of Birth
05-11-1988
HT/WT
5'9 / 176
Shoots
L
Hometown
Hammonds Plains, N.S
Club Team
Boston (NHL)
Teams
2016 World Cup of Hockey - Canada
2016 IIHF World Championship - Canada

Biography

HOCKEY CANADA BACKGROUND

Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2016 IIHF World Championship in Russia … Attended Canada’s National Men’s Team orientation camp in Calgary, Alta., in August 2013 … Won a gold medal with Canada’s National Junior Team at the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic … Played with Canada’s National Junior Team in the 2007 Canada-Russia Super Series … Won a gold medal with Canada’s National Junior Team at the 2007 IIHF World Junior Championship in Leksand and Mora, Sweden … Won a gold medal with Canada’s National Summer Under-18 Team at the 2005 Junior World Cup in the Czech Republic and Slovakia … Won a bronze medal with Team Atlantic at the 2005 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Lethbridge, Alta.

HOCKEY BACKGROUND

2015-16: His seventh NHL season, all with Boston … Set career highs in goals (37) and points (61) … Fourth in Boston scoring … Led Boston in goals, plus/minus (+21) and shorthanded goals (4) … 2014-15: Led Boston in goals (24) … Fourth player in franchise history to lead in goals and penalty minutes in the same season … Scored his 100th NHL goal on Dec. 6 vs. Arizona … Recorded his 200th NHL point on Dec. 4 vs. San Jose … 2013-14: Set a career high in assists (28) … Co-led the NHL in shorthanded goals (5) … Played in his 300th NHL game on April 13 vs. New Jersey … 2012-13: Led Boston in scoring, with 36 points … Played in his 200th NHL game on March 19 vs. Winnipeg … Recorded his 100th NHL point on Jan. 29 vs. N.Y. Islanders … 2011-12: Played in his 100th NHL game on Oct. 10 vs. Colorado … 2010-11: Won the Stanley Cup with Boston … Recorded three points (2G 1A) in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 15 vs. Vancouver … Led NHL rookies in goals (11), assists (8), points (19) and plus/minus (+12) in the playoffs … Set a Boston record for goals by a rookie in one playoffs … Scored his first NHL goal on Nov. 3 vs. Buffalo … 2009-10: Split the season between Boston and the Providence Bruins (AHL) … Made his NHL debut and recorded his first NHL point on Oct. 21 vs. Nashville … 2008-09: Spent the season with Providence … Second in AHL rookie scoring, with 59 points … Amateur: Played four seasons of junior hockey (2004-08) with the QMJHL’s Moncton Wildcats, Val-d’Or Foreurs and Halifax Mooseheads … Led the QMJHL in playoff scoring in 2007, with 40 points … Won the QMJHL championship with Moncton in 2006, and reached the final of the Memorial Cup … Moncton’s second-round selection, 24th overall, in the 2004 QMJHL Entry Draft … Minor Hockey: Lists his father, Kevin, as his favourite minor hockey coach

PERSONAL

Son of Kevin and Lynn … Has one brother, Jeff, and two sisters, Melissa and Rebecca … Favourite NHL team growing up: Toronto Maple Leafs … Favourite player growing up: Peter Forsberg … Favourite sports other than hockey: golf, hunting … His father, Kevin, played in the 1980 Air Canada Cup, Canada’s National Midget Championship

Past Events

Event
GP
P
G
A
PIM
2016 IIHF World Championship
10
7
4
3
10
2016 World Cup of Hockey
9
9
5
4
12