Pierre McGuire: Blues Maroon Questioned Bruins Leadership

NHL on NBC between the glass analyst Pierre McGuire told TSN 690 in Montreal Thursday that Blues forward Pat Maroon questioned the Boston Bruins leadership on the ice during his team’s 3-2 overtime win in Game 2 Wednesday.

“He said ‘That’s really limited leadership. You guys should start looking at one another’,” McGuire said on his daily segment on ‘Melnick In The Afternoon’ on TSN 690 in Montreal. “I won’t tell you who he was talking to because that would be inappropriate, but it was well done by him, rather than screaming and yelling and swearing, he was calm, cool and collected.”

Apparently, McGuire missed the part when Maroon did swear telling the Bruins bench “You guys are f*cked!” but one has to think the having the opponent call out your leadership core will get under the skin of the Bruins more than an expletive.

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Pat Maroon: "You guys are fucked." GIF#StanleyCup #Stlblues pic.twitter.com/JnVhWea5ZJ

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Heading into the Stanley Cup Final, the 6’3, 225-pound Maroon told BostonHockeyNow that he wasn’t planning on becoming the only NHL player to fight Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara three times since the 6’9, 250-pound Chara became a Bruin back in 2006, but he did plan on playing the giant d-man and all Bruins hard.

“You never want to do that; I’ll probably never want to do it again,” Maroon quipped. “You just need to play him hard like anyone else. Obviously, you won’t win many battles against him, but you do what you can to get to him.”

Well, so far Maroon appears to be getting under the collective skin of the Bruins as Chara took some after the whistle jabs at him in a scrum by the Bruins net in Game 2 and then Marchand could be seen taunting the Blues bench.

Pat Maroon falls onto the ice after some cheap shots from Chara.#StanleyCup #Stlblues pic.twitter.com/Wm9xgETytB

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Brad Marchand gives the Blues the crying notion as they leave the ice. Classic. #StanleyCup #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/ON1WqydFhV

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