"The fact this guy has a platform and is just making this up is embarrassing."
Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand took aim at a radio host Friday for claiming he has a bad relationship with teammate David Pastrnak.
WEEI’s Rich Keefe said Friday on the Jones & Keefe show that the Bruins locker room is a “disaster,” and Pastrnak has reportedly told the team he does not want to play on the same line as Marchand.
Marchand caught word of the report and after the Bruins’ practice Friday he delivered a blistering response, saying there is “zero truth” to Keefe’s comments.
“I’ve heard what was said in the media this morning. It’s unfortunate,” Marchand said (via NESN). “I know reporters have a job to do and that job is to report on the team. Usually, you try to be fact-based. But when there’s just blatant lies told in the media, that’s where there’s a problem. The fact this guy has a platform and is just making this up is embarrassing. There’s zero truth to anything he said. This is how you lose a job very quickly. The fact that he’s gonna have a job after this is insane.
Marchand went on to say he and “Pasta” are “best friends,” before continuing his roast of Keefe.
“I’m not gonna let some random guy come in the media and spit absolute nonsense,” Marchand said. “From this point forward, this guy has zero credibility. The fact he’s coming out with this is ridiculous and embarrassing. Anything he puts forth in the future is not going to be deemed as truth because he’s completely making all of this up.
“If he would have fact-checked, he would have found out it’s all nonsense. There’s zero truth to this. It’s ridiculous. … I’m not gonna let it become something it’s not. This guy can go pound sand and go back to the closet where no one knew he was before and report on nothing because that’s what he’s going to be doing after this.”
In a quick rebuttal to Marchand’s response, Keefe posted a video of the Bruins captain’s comments and noted, “No one acts this way if the story is really false.”
“Now I got Marchand calling for my job? No one acts this way if the story is really false. Thanks for the confirmation,” Keefe wrote.
These are the types of stories that surface when a team is struggling, and the Bruins are in a tailspin. They entered Friday with a six-game losing streak, the team’s longest since the 2006-07 season.
