Brad Marchand Takes a Public Shot at the Penguins After Winning the Stanley Cup
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Tom Banks
June 20, 2025 (2:19 PM)
Photo credit: NHL.com
Brad Marchand was taking shots at the entire NHL after winning the Stanley Cup, and that includes the Pittsburgh Penguins in his social media tirade, as he thanked them for letting go of veteran forward Evan Rodrigues.
The Florida Panthers completed back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2025, something that has been done only twice since 2000, with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Tampa Bay Lightning the only other teams to achieve that feat.
After winning Game 6 on Tuesday night, the celebrations down in Florida have been endless, and on Thursday night, veteran forward Brad Marchand took to calling out many teams around the NHL.
He did so by posting to his Instagram story of individual Panthers players, thanking the team that let them go for letting them come to Florida where they would eventually contribute to the Panthers Stanley Cup win.
Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, they didn't avoid Marchand's social media tirade, as he posted a photo of former Penguin Evan Rodrigues, thanking the team for allowing him to land in Florida.
Rodrigues was a tough one, as he's spent plenty of time in Buffalo (as have many players before leaving to win a Stanley Cup, including teammate
Sam Reinhart), as well as playing in Colorado his final season before joining Florida, but for some reason, Marchand chose Pittsburgh.
Fortunately for the Penguins, they were one of many teams that were involved in Marchand's social media posts, as he also called out the Sabres and Flames among many others, as this team was put together with plenty of trades and under the radar free agency moves, but ultimately, this is certainly a player that Pittsburgh would have love to have kept.
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