Should fans of Bruins return to Marchand or close the book for good?

But Marchand now plays for the enemy, and he is busy in proving himself to be one of the best trade time limit acquisition of all time. Since he helps play the dreaded Florida panthers for the second consecutive championship with a round and timely leadership at his time, two wins from hoisting the cup after the loss of the game 4 of Marchand, Florida, tied the series 2-2 in a series 2-2 on Thursday night, reminding the brrinks every night.

And there is no doubt that they are surprised whether the money should be pony to bring them back. Emotionally, it is a no-brine. Marchand is dear to Boston, a Stanley Cup winner in its first full supporting season, a former captain, Patris Burzron for BFF, a straight link for more competitive time, a stability game between franchise leaders of all time to a penalty minutes played for penalty minutes. Whenever and although this Stanley Cup final ends, Marchand will be on the target on 1 July to become an unrestricted free agent. With a new, attractive contract in his mind, Bruce can occur among his suicide.

As long as they are, a real possibility gave the inability of the sides to agree to an expansion during the regular season. And when occupying the rational head, Marchand has a variety of arguments to keep the chapter closed for good, to celebrate from a distance because he plays the last years of an extraordinary career elsewhere, and then invites him back to an indispensable jersey retirement ceremony in Boston.

While Bruce starts this next franchise phase under the new coach Marco Strame, they will be sensible to follow The plan stram excluded during its introductory news conference on Tuesday, The one in which the players have to be honored in the past, but do not bow down to it.

“We are found to re -establish the whole thing, because these people are no longer here,” said the stum. “So now it is going to our and new groups so that this group can be taken in a new era.”

Of course, it is difficult to see Marchand during this postseen rebirth and is not wooed by its impressive data going to Thursday: eight playoff goals (fifth among all players), 18 postsen points (seventh), and plus -15 (second) plus -mineus. Marchand is the oldest player in the cup final history to score in the first three matches of the series. Seriously, what else he can do to prove that he has gas left in his 37 -year -old tank?

Those eight goals are Double-Overtime Winner in Game 2, After a 56 seconds in Game 3, the back-to-back score, which made him the first player in NHL history, with overtime goals in a game and an opening-minute goal in the following one in a cup final. More importantly, however, he helped the panthers control the series after leaving game 1 in overtime, Opening that starting game 3 goals 6-1,

A time limit was a significant impact from trade that surrendered only a conditional 2027 second-round pick (which has become the first round with the least round 3 of the playoffs with panthers.

“He is an extraordinary person,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice told reporters over the weekend. “I really enjoyed her being.”

Sturm will probably enjoy it, too. But the reality of the roster of the broonse is nothing as is on a Marchand in Florida, where there is so much supreme rule in the depth that a man with the first line talent has become the strength of the third line. Sam Bennett, Matthew Tachuk, Carter Verhaighe, Alexander Barkov et al, Marchand with the choice of Cherry -Cherry on the Sunda. He tops the panthers. Back with Bruce, he will be expected to shoulder the load, the same player who was left to the wing in a top row, was out on the power play for the first time, first was out on a penalty kilt kiln, all the locker-rrooms while setting the vibe. Now it seems intelligent to let young players take those roles.

Marchand is now intelligent to earn the robbery of his contribution to Florida, where he is basically fit inside a locker room, which had dropped his former team out of the playoffs in the last two years.

Marchand said during this playoff run, “I cannot return late in the playoffs in my career.” “Standing to be one of the final teams and being part of a great group of people, these are memories that I want to remember and enjoy.”

Tara Sulivan is a globe columnist. He can be reached tara.sullivan@globe.comFollow it @Globe_tara,