Amateur in January 2008 The
Moncton Wildcats of the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) selected Marchand 24th overall in the
2004 QMJHL entry draft. Shortly before the
2005–06 season, Moncton hired
Ted Nolan as their new head coach, and he took to Marchand's "drive and determination" at once, giving the skater an extensive role on the team. Under this new direction, Marchand scored 29 goals and 66
points in 68 regular season games for Moncton, and led the team to a
President's Cup championship and the
Memorial Cup finals with another five goals and 14
assists in 20 playoff games. The Wildcats ultimately lost in the finals to the
Quebec Remparts. The
Boston Bruins of the NHL spent the season
scouting Marchand, and traded two fourth-round picks in the
2006 NHL entry draft to the
New York Islanders in exchange for a third-round pick, which they used to select Marchand 71st overall. Marchand signed an
entry-level contract with the team in October 2007. On January 2, 2006, the Wildcats traded Marchand and two draft picks to the
Val-d'Or Foreurs in exchange for
Luc Bourdon, Jean-Sebastien Adam, and Ian Mathieu-Girard, with Marchand's part of the trade going into effect just before the
2006–07 season. He scored 33 goals and 47 assists in 57 regular season games with Val-d'Or, and in that season's playoffs, he led the league with 16 goals and 24 assists in 20 games. At the same time, he showed signs of being a
grinder, putting up 36
penalty minutes. Although the
Lewiston Maineiacs swept the Foreurs in the Memorial Cup finals, Maineiacs skater
David Perron and goaltender
Jonathan Bernier saw a threat in Marchand, both for his offensive ability and the way in which he frustrated his opponents. He returned to the Foreurs the following season, putting up 21 goals and 23 assists in 33 games. in November 2008 On December 17, 2007, the first day of the QMJHL trading window, the Foreurs traded Marchand to the
Halifax Mooseheads in exchange for forward
Maxime Sauvé and five future draft picks, including two in the first round. Earlier that day, Halifax had acquired Sauvé from the Quebec Remparts in exchange for centre David Gilbert. When the Foreurs had first approached Marchand about potential trades, he had been eager to join his hometown team, where his childhood friends Hillier and Bodnarchuk were already playing. The Providence Bruins advanced to the final four of the 2009
Calder Cup playoffs, where they were eliminated by the eventual Calder Cup-winning
Hershey Bears.
Boston Bruins (2009–2025) victory parade in Downtown Boston Marchand opened the
2009–10 season with Providence, but received his first NHL call-up after scoring six points in his first six games. He made his NHL debut on October 21, 2009, picking up an assist on
Michael Ryder's goal in a 3–2 win against the
Nashville Predators. After 11 scoreless games, Boston sent Marchand back down to Providence, where he scored only seven goals in a 28-game stretch. Later in the season, Marchand saw a hot streak of 16 points in 14 AHL games, leading to his second call-up. Originally, Marchand was meant to serve as the Bruins' spare fourth-line forward for the
2010–11 season, with
Daniel Paille starting alongside
Gregory Campbell and
Shawn Thornton. However, a strong training camp performance from Marchand pushed Paille from the starting lineup to the
bench, with the latter filling in during brief periods of injury. Marchand scored his first NHL goal on November 3, 2010, against the
Buffalo Sabres. By the end of the season, Marchand had 41 points (21 goals, 20 assists) in 77 contests, far fewer than fellow rookies
Jeff Skinner,
Logan Couture, and
Michael Grabner, but he averaged significantly less time on the ice, and when he was asked to play, he was given few opportunities to score. Marchand also earned the first suspension of his NHL career during the season, receiving a two-game penalty on March 17, 2011, for elbowing
R. J. Umberger of the
Columbus Blue Jackets. That year, Marchand was the recipient of the Bruin's
Seventh Player Award, given by fans of the
New England Sports Network to the player who surpassed expectations. By the
2011 playoffs, Marchand got bumped up from the fourth line with Thornton and Campbell to the first line with
Patrice Bergeron and
Mark Recchi. On April 14, Marchand made his Stanley Cup playoff debut in the first game of the opening round against the
Montreal Canadiens, where the Bruins would be defeated 2–0 to give the Bruins a 1–0 deficit to start the series. In game two of the matchup two days later, Marchand recorded his first career playoff assist on a Patrice Bergeron goal although the Canadiens would defeat the Bruins in the game 3–1 to give the Bruins a 2–0 series deficit. After helping the Bruins win the next two games, Marchand recorded his first career playoff goal in game five of the series on Canadiens' goaltender
Carey Price as the Bruins won the game 2–1 for a 3–2 series lead. The third-seeded Bruins would go on to defeat the Canadiens in seven games before sweeping the second-seeded
Philadelphia Flyers and defeating the fifth-seeded
Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games en route to help the Bruins clinch their first appearance in the
Stanley Cup Final since
1990. After losing the first two games of the Finals against the
Presidents' Trophy-winning
Vancouver Canucks and going pointless in both, Marchand recorded a goal on Canucks' goaltender
Roberto Luongo and an assist on a Mark Recchi goal in Game 3 on June 6 in which the Bruins exploded to an 8–1 victory. Marchand went on to score another goal in a lopsided 4–0 win over the Canucks in Game 4 on June 8 to even the series 2–2. After getting shutout in a 1–0 loss in Game 5 on June 10 for a 3–2 deficit, Marchand scored the first goal of the game in Game 6 on June 13 as the Bruins would go on to win the game 5–2 to and forcing a seventh game and prevent the Canucks from clinching the Stanley Cup. In the sixth game, Marchand was criticized by sportswriters for repeatedly punching Canucks star forward
Daniel Sedin, an altercation for which he received no penalty. After the fact, reporters asked why Marchand continued to hit Sedin unprovoked, to which he responded, "Because I felt like it." Marchand scored two goals one of which an empty net goal and an assist on a Patrice Bergeron goal in Game 7 of the finals on June 15, helping to clinch the championship for Boston against the Canucks as the Bruins won the game 4–0 for a 4–3 series victory, erasing a 3–2 series deficit in doing so. He finished the playoffs by scoring 19 points (11 goals, eight assists) in all 25 postseason games. Marchand's 11 playoff goals during the Bruins' 2011 championship run tied
Jeremy Roenick for the second-most of any NHL rookie. in February 2012 On September 14, 2011, the Bruins announced that they had re-signed Marchand to a two-year contract, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal. Shortly after, Marchand scored the Bruins' first goal of the
2011–12 season in the season opener on October 6, a backhand pass against the Philadelphia Flyers. As the season progressed, Marchand also continued to develop his reputation as a pest. That October, Marchand tried to fight with defenceman
P. K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens twice within the same game, only to be broken up by officials both times. On December 12, the NHL fined Marchand $2,500 for
slew footing Matt Niskanen of the
Pittsburgh Penguins the week prior, a penalty which resulted in an on-ice fight between Marchand and Niskanen. Later that season, Marchand scored his first NHL
hat trick, scoring three goals and a career-high five points in the Bruins' defeat of the
Florida Panthers on December 23. On January 9, 2012, Marchand was suspended for five games and fined over $150,000 for clipping Vancouver Canucks defenceman
Sami Salo, resulting in a
concussion for Salo. Marchand and Julien defended the hit, arguing that it was performed in self-defence against Salo, who stood taller than Marchand. After finishing his breakout season having scored 28 goals and 27 assists for 55 points in 76 contests and playing on a line with Patrice Bergeron and
Tyler Seguin, Marchand was moved to the Bruins' "Merlot" line with Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton for the
2012 playoffs. After battling their way to a Game 7 overtime, the defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins fell to the seventh-seeded
Washington Capitals in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. At the end of the year, Marchand took home both the
Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy, awarded for outstanding performance during home games, and the
John P. Bucyk Award for charitable contributions off the ice. On September 7, 2012, the Bruins extended Marchand's contract by four more years, with his salary carrying an average annual value of $4.5 million. When the
2012–13 season was indefinitely delayed due to a
lockout, many of Marchand's teammates struck deals to play in European hockey leagues, an option that Marchand met with trepidation. He ultimately chose to wait out the lock-out, and did not play professional hockey until the season began in January 2013. Paired with Bergeron and Seguin, both of whom spent the lock-out in the
Swiss National League, Marchand worried that he would be out of practice compared to his teammates. He ultimately scored 18 goals and 18 assists for 36 points in 45 games of the 48-game lockout-shortened season, which in a regular 82-game season anticipated that he would have scored over 30 goals and recorded over 35 assists for 65 points. After defeating the Rangers in five games in the second round and sweeping the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins in the third round to clinch their spot in the
2013 Stanley Cup Final, the Presidents' Trophy-winning
Chicago Blackhawks overpowered the Bruins in the Finals, defeating them in six games. Going into the
2013–14 season with
Tyler Seguin and
Jaromír Jágr no longer on the Bruins, Marchand struggled to adjust to his new linemate
Loui Eriksson, colliding with the other
winger during a preseason game against the
Winnipeg Jets on September 27, 2013. Marchand's struggles continued into the season, with just three goals in the first 20 games. Bruins head coach
Claude Julien demoted Marchand from the second to the third and fourth lines on several occasions, giving players like
Jordan Caron an opportunity to fill his position in the top-six. His decision to taunt the
Vancouver Canucks by kissing his 2011 Stanley Cup championship ring in a December 14 game at
Rogers Arena, (the first time the Bruins returned to the arena since game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final on June 15, 2011) that the Bruins lost 6–2 frustrated Julien, who wanted to improve Marchand's scoring while tempering his emotions. By the end of the season, Marchand had improved to 25 goals and set a career high of 28 assists for 53 points in all 82 games played to help the Bruins win the
Presidents' Trophy as the regular season champions, but he voiced disappointment in his own individual performance, citing a struggle with the mental aspects of hockey. His scoring struggles continued into the
2014 playoffs, when the Bruins defeated the eighth-seeded
Detroit Red Wings in five games before getting defeated in six games by the sixth-seeded
Montreal Canadiens in the second round and Marchand scored only five assists in all 12 games and missed an
empty net goal in game four in the first round from only away. Despite dissatisfaction with his own performance, the Bruins awarded Marchand the 2014
Eddie Shore Award, given to the player who demonstrates "exceptional hustle and determination" throughout the season. Marchand entered the
2014–15 season having worked on his off-season conditioning and the mental aspects of the game in the hopes that it would break his slump from the previous season. On November 15, 2014, Marchand recorded his 100th career NHL assist in a 2–1 victory over the
Carolina Hurricanes on a goal by
Patrice Bergeron. On December 6, Marchand scored his 100th NHL goal in a 5–2 win over the
Arizona Coyotes on Coyotes' goaltender
Devan Dubnyk. Although the season was considered a disappointment as a team, having finished the season with only 96 points in the standings, just two points behind the
Pittsburgh Penguins for the eighth and last playoff spot to miss the
playoffs as a result for the first time since
2007, Marchand was a bright spot, leading Boston with 24 total goals and five game-winning goals while also recording 18 assists for 42 points in 77 contests. After the season, Marchand admitted in an interview that the Bruins had been "a little bit divided", and that there were "different cliques" on the team, which in turn impacted their on-ice performance. He also revealed that he had been battling an elbow injury ever since the 2014 playoffs, and he underwent surgery during the 2015 off-season to repair torn tendons in the area. After the season,
98.5 The Sports Hub named Marchand the Bruins' Third Star of the year, with Bergeron and
Tuukka Rask receiving the first and second stars, respectively. The Bruins' offence continued to struggle into the
2015–16 season, when Marchand was indefinitely placed on the injured list. He had been stunned by a collision with
Dale Weise of the Montreal Canadiens on October 10, 2015, and did not return to the game; the Bruins later revealed that Marchand had suffered a concussion from the collision. He ultimately missed two games, returning on October 17 for a match against the Arizona Coyotes. Marchand was on the other side of a suspension on November 12, when he suffered an illegal check to the head from
Colorado Avalanche skater and captain
Gabriel Landeskog. Landeskog received a two-game suspension, while Marchand was fined $5,000 for throwing a punch after the incident. On December 30, Marchand received a suspension of his own for clipping
Mark Borowiecki of the
Ottawa Senators. Because Marchand was considered a repeat offender, he was penalized with three games and over $150,000. During a home game on February 6, 2016, Marchand was allowed an overtime
penalty shot against the
Buffalo Sabres when defenceman
Rasmus Ristolainen dropped his stick to grab Marchand and prevent a shot. Marchand successfully made the shot for the first overtime penalty-shot goal in franchise history. While the Bruins missed the playoffs once again by just three points in the standings with a regular season tiebreaker loss to the Ottawa Senators, Marchand set a career-high 37 goals during the 2015–16 season along with 24 assists for 61 points in 77 games. He also received his second Seventh Player Award, as voted by fans of the New England Sports Network. On September 26, 2016, the Bruins signed Marchand to an eight-year, $49 million contract extension that would carry through to the
2024–25 season. The contract carried an annual average value of $6.125 million. Marchand opened the
2016–17 season with a scoring rush, putting up two goals and three assists for five points in the first game of the season against the
Columbus Blue Jackets, followed by four points in the next three games against the
Toronto Maple Leafs,
Winnipeg Jets and
New Jersey Devils, respectively. After leading the Bruins in scoring for the first half of the season, putting up 13 goals and 22 assists for 35 points in 43 games, Marchand received his first selection to the
NHL All-Star Game in January 2017. He nearly missed the game after meeting with the Department of Player Safety for a "dangerous trip" of
Niklas Kronwall of the
Detroit Red Wings, but ultimately received a $10,000 fine and no suspension. On March 14, Marchand recorded an assist on a goal by
David Backes and scored the second hat trick of his NHL career and sixth career four point game, with all three goals coming in the third period of a 6–3 win over the
Vancouver Canucks. After putting up 39 goals and 46 assists for 85 points in 80 games during the season, Marchand missed the final two games of the season due a suspension for spearing
Jake Dotchin of the
Tampa Bay Lightning. The Bruins' 4–0 victory in that game helped them clinch a berth in the
playoffs for the first time since
2014. The Bruins fell to the
Ottawa Senators in the first round of the 2017 playoffs in six games, with Marchand scoring only one goal and three assists for four points in the six-game series. At the end of the year, Marchand received his first
NHL first All-Star team selection, while the Bruins awarded him both the Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy and the team's Third Star. After having a career year in 2016–17, Marchand intended to double down on his consistent offensive production for the
2017–18 season with linemates
Patrice Bergeron and
David Pastrňák as they started being referred as the "Perfection" line. His athletic abilities that season, however, were largely overshadowed by his on-ice behaviour. On January 24, 2018, Marchand received a five-game suspension from the NHL for an elbow to the head of New Jersey Devils forward
Marcus Johansson the previous day, who suffered a
concussion from the play. It was the ninth time that Marchand had received either a fine or suspension from the Department of Player Safety. Despite the
2018 All-Star Game taking place in the midst of Marchand's suspension, he was allowed to take part in the game and skills competition at
Amalie Arena, where he was subject to booing from fans in attendance. On March 9, after receiving a previous warning about embellishing his reaction to a hit in an attempt to draw penalties, Marchand was fined $2,000 for embellishing a tripping penalty by
Olli Määttä of the
Pittsburgh Penguins. The following day, Marchand collided with Blackhawks skater
Anthony Duclair, causing the latter a season-ending leg injury. Duclair told reporters that Marchand had reached out to him after the injury, but that it was still a "pretty dirty" play. On April 2, Marchand received his second fine in the span of a month, with a $5,000 penalty for cross-checking
Andrew MacDonald of the
Philadelphia Flyers. That same season, Marchand scored the third hat trick of his career with an overtime shot against the Red Wings. The last goal was also his 11th regular season overtime goal, passing
Glen Murray's record for the most among the Bruins since overtime was reinstated during the
1983–84 season. Marchand took home the Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy for the second year in a row, and was moved from the Bruins' Third Star to Second at the end-of-year awards ceremony. Marchand's on-ice behaviour came to a head during the
2018 playoffs, when the NHL placed him on notice for kissing and licking his opponents, behaviour that the league deemed "unacceptable" while warning that "similar behavior in the future will be dealt with by way of supplemental discipline". Marchand's habit was first noticed during a November 2017 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, when he leaned in to kiss
Leo Komarov on the cheek rather than fighting him. During Game 1 of the first-round playoff series between Toronto and Boston, Marchand licked Komarov on the face, joking to reporters, "I just wanted to get close to him." He and the NHL both denied that licking Komarov had led to any warning or disciplinary action from the league. Instead, the warning came during the second round, when he licked Tampa Bay Lightning forward
Ryan Callahan across the face. After receiving the warning, Marchand told reporters that he was going to "really take a pretty hard look in the mirror" and improve "some character things". After the Bruins were eliminated from the playoffs by the top-seeded Lightning having been defeated by them in five games, the team revealed that several skaters had been playing through injuries including Marchand after he suffered a groin injury that affected him for the final six to seven games of the playoffs. Despite his injury and controversies, Marchand scored 85 points (34 goals, 51 assists) in 68 regular season games and added another 17 points (four goals, 13 assists) in all 12 playoff appearances. In the opening game of the Bruins'
2018–19 season against the newly-defending Stanley Cup champion
Washington Capitals on October 3, 2018, in which the Bruins would lose 7–0, Marchand became frustrated with post-goal celebration by Capitals forward
Lars Eller and started fighting Eller hard enough to bloody him. Marchand was ejected from the game with fighting and instigator penalties, as well as a 10-minute game misconduct. In his next game the next day, Marchand tied his career high four assists in a game as part of a 4–0 shutout against the
Buffalo Sabres as he recorded assists on all four goals by Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrňák,
Ryan Donato and captain
Zdeno Chára, respectively. He and the Perfection line of him, Bergeron and Pastrňák continued to generate offensive power throughout the season, and on March 31, 2019, Marchand scored the 26th shorthanded goal of his career against
Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings, breaking
Rick Middleton's franchise record. In the following game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 3, Marchand scored his 100th point of the season with an assist on a goal by David Pastrňák, becoming the tenth player in franchise history to reach the mark and the first Bruin since
Joe Thornton during the
2002–03 season. For his performance, Marchand received an NHL second All-Star team selection, as well as his third consecutive Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy and the Bruins' First Star. He ended the season with 36 goals and a career high 64 assists and 100 points in 79 games as the Bruins as a team finished as the third seed in the East for a second consecutive season. After the Bruins defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games in the first round of the
2019 playoffs for the second consecutive year and overcame a 3–2 series deficit, the Bruins and the Columbus Blue Jackets faced each other again in the second round. In Game 3 of the series on April 30, Marchand came under fire for a punch to the back of the head of defenceman
Scott Harrington, which ultimately did not result in a suspension. The Bruins would eventually defeat the eighth-seeded Blue Jackets in six games and followed up by defeating the seventh-seeded
Carolina Hurricanes in a four-game sweep in the Eastern Conference finals, clinching a spot in the
2019 Stanley Cup Final, Marchand's third appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. Going into the Finals, Marchand was considered a heavy favorite for the
Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP if the Bruins were to win the Stanley Cup. However, Marchand could not carry his scoring power from the regular season and the first three rounds of the playoffs into the Finals, scoring only two goals and three assists for five points in the series and carrying a −2 rating. The Bruins took the
St. Louis Blues to seven games, falling 4–1 in the seventh and final game on
home ice on June 12, while Marchand took responsibility for part of his team's game 7 loss. At the end of the first period of Game 7, with less than 15 seconds remaining before the first intermission, Marchand skated to the bench to signal for a line change, allowing opponents
Jaden Schwartz and
Alex Pietrangelo of the Blues to skate by him, with the latter scoring a goal against goaltender and teammate
Tuukka Rask. Marchand and the Bruins opened the
2019–20 season with a desire to move past the previous season's game 7 in the Stanley Cup Final and to continue the discipline that Marchand had been practicing in recent years. On October 27, 2019, the "Perfection line" of BergeronMarchandPastrňák combined for a total of 13 points against the
New York Rangers. While Bergeron scored his fifth career hat trick, Marchand and Pastrňák put up five points apiece, becoming the first pair of Bruins teammates to do so since Joe Thornton and
Glen Murray on December 28, 2001, in a 7–1 Bruins victory over the
Florida Panthers. On November 26, Marchand became the 11th Bruins skater to reach 600 career points, with a first period goal against
Carey Price of the
Montreal Canadiens. Marchand and his linemates kept up their scoring pace throughout the season, and when the NHL suspended operations in March 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. While playing on the top line that season, Marchand became a
playmaker, setting up goals for Bergeron and Pastrňák. Although he had only 28 goals in the season, Marchand compiled 59 assists for 87 points, the sixth-highest in the NHL for the year and the highest on the Bruins. 26 of Pastrňák's 48 regular season goals had assists from Marchand, including 18 primary assists. Before the last three weeks of the regular season got canceled, Marchand was on pace to have a second consecutive 100 point season and second in his NHL career altogether. During the pause, Marchand was concerned that the NHL would attempt to resume operations too quickly, leading to "really, really ugly" games as unprepared skaters began playing without sufficient practice time. When the NHL resumed operations for the
2020 playoffs in late-July, Marchand was one of 31 Bruins invited to play in the Toronto quarantine "bubble". Despite Marchand scoring six goals in as many games during the 2020 playoffs, the Bruins fell to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning in the second round. At the end of the season, Marchand was named the Bruins' Third Star, while his three-year streak of winning the Elizabeth Dufresne Trophy came to an end when the award went to Pastrňák. The NHL also named Marchand to their 2019–20 second All-Star team. On September 14, 2020, Marchand underwent a
sports hernia surgery that carried an expected four-month recovery time, leaving it in question whether he would be available for the start of the pandemic-shortened
2020–21 season. On January 7, 2021, Marchand was also named
alternate captain of the Bruins, serving alongside
David Krejčí as Patrice Bergeron filled the captain vacancy left by
Zdeno Chára after the latter left the Bruins and signed with the Washington Capitals in free agency. Marchand revealed that the sports hernia injury had been causing him pain for two and a half years, ended up on track to return to the Bruins at full strength for their January 14 home opener against the New Jersey Devils, in which he scored the team's first goal of the season on Devils' goaltender
Mackenzie Blackwood and also recording an assist on a
Nick Ritchie goal later on in the game as the Bruins won the game 3–2. On March 27, Marchand was placed on the NHL COVID protocol list, allowing young player
Trent Frederic a chance to occupy his position on the top line with Bergeron and Pastrňák. He returned after two missed games, revealing that a
false positive test had placed him on the list. By the end of the abbreviated season, Marchand played in 53 games and led the team with 29 goals and 40 assists for 63 points, as well as four shorthanded goals and five game-winning goals. He was the Bruins' First Star at their awards banquet, and also took home both his fourth Elizabeth Dufresne Trophy and second Eddie Shore Award. Marchand continued to score game-winning goals in the
2021 playoffs, first an overtime goal in Game 2 of the first round against the Washington Capitals, followed by another overtime shot in Game 3 of the second round, against the
New York Islanders. His Game 2 overtime goal was only 39 seconds into the period, breaking
Bobby Orr's 1970 record for the fastest overtime game-winning goal in Bruins postseason history. Orr scored 40 seconds into Game 4 of the
1970 Stanley Cup Final against the St. Louis Blues, clinching the Bruins' fourth championship. Marchand scored two goals in the Bruins' Game 6 loss to the Islanders, tying with
Peter McNab for the most goals in Bruins elimination games with nine. Although he finished fifth in Hart Trophy voting, with
Edmonton Oilers forward and captain
Connor McDavid as a unanimous first selection and winner, Marchand was named to the 2021 All-NHL First Team at the end of June. in February 2023 During the first home game of the Bruins'
2021–22 season on October 16, 2021, Marchand scored a goal on a penalty shot that he was awarded after
Dallas Stars defenceman
Ryan Suter was called for holding on an attempted Marchand
breakaway. Marchand became the third player in NHL history to score the first goal of a team's season on a penalty shot, following
Mats Sundin of the Toronto Maple Leafs in October 2006 and former Bruin teammate
Chris Kelly for the Bruins in October 2013, respectively. On November 29, Marchand received the seventh suspension of his NHL career when he was penalized for three games after slew-footing
Oliver Ekman-Larsson of the Vancouver Canucks. Marchand was not penalized during the game, and Ekman-Larsson was not injured. On December 14, Marchand and
Craig Smith were placed into COVID-19 protocols. Four days later and amidst a larger team outbreak, the Boston Bruins' season was suspended through the annual Christmas break. Marchand was suspended for the second time that season and eighth time in his career on February 9, 2022, when he received a six-game ban for roughing and high-sticking goaltender
Tristan Jarry of the Pittsburgh Penguins. In the final minute of the game, which the Bruins lost 4–2, Jarry made a comment to Marchand, who responded by punching the goaltender in the head and hitting him with his stick, earning Marchand a match penalty, which are handed out when the officials deem an "intent to injure". In a press conference on February 11, Marchand said that he believed his actions were "stupid" but were not "suspension-worthy", and said he was considering appealing the suspension. Marchand underwent hip arthroscopy and labral repair on both hips right after the Bruins first round exit in the
2022 playoffs in May 2022 and was expected to miss six months, where he had a return table around late November of the
2022–23 season. He returned one month early of his initial plan, however, making his season debut on October 27, 2022, where he scored two goals and had an assist in a win against the Detroit Red Wings. Marchand contributed significantly to the Bruins' season that saw the team break the all-time record for wins (65) and points (135) in an NHL season. Despite missing nine games, Marchand finished second in points on the team with 67, scoring 21 goals and earning 46 assists in 73 contests. The team's season ended after the first round of the
2023 playoffs, however, as they lost to the eighth-seeded Florida Panthers in seven games after initially holding a 3–1 series lead. Marchand exited the playoffs with 10 points, tied with
Tyler Bertuzzi for the most on the Bruins. On September 20, 2023, in advance of the
2023–24 season, Marchand was named
captain of the Bruins, succeeding the recently retired Patrice Bergeron. On November 18, Marchand recorded his 500th NHL assist on a
Charlie McAvoy goal in a 5–2 victory over the
Montreal Canadiens. On February 13, 2024, Marchand played his
1,000th NHL game in a 3–2 shootout loss to the
Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming only the eighth player in Bruins history to play 1,000 games with the team. In the game, he recorded assists on both goals by Boston from Charlie McAvoy and
James van Riemsdyk, respectively. On April 4, Marchand recorded his 400th NHL goal in a 4–1 Bruins win over the
Carolina Hurricanes on Hurricanes goaltender
Frederik Andersen to become the fifth player in Bruins history to reach the marker. He finished the season playing in all 82 games and recording 29 goals and 38 assists for 67 points as the Bruins clinched the fourth seed in the East. With a two-goal performance in Game 3 of the first round of the
2024 playoffs against the
Toronto Maple Leafs, Marchand tied
Cam Neely for most playoff goals in Bruins history, with 55. In Game 4, Marchand recorded his 56th career playoff goal to pass Neely for sole possession for most playoff goals in Bruins history. Marchand and the Bruins would defeat the fifth-seeded Maple Leafs in seven games. In the first period of Game 3 of the Bruins second round matchup against the second-seeded and eventual Stanley Cup champion
Florida Panthers, Marchand was the target of a sucker punch hit by
Sam Bennett. Marchand was injured on the play, and although he attempted to continue to play, he was later taken out of the game. Marchand missed Games 4 and 5 of the series as a result of the injury. There was no penalty called on Bennett during the play, as well as no disciplinary action by the NHL Department of Player Safety, raising concerns about the NHL's approach to the series. Many NHL personalities spoke out against the hit and the NHL response, such as former NHL referee
Tim Peel, and former NHL players and current analysts
Paul Bissonnette and
Colby Armstrong (of the
Spittin' Chiclets podcast), and Bruins general manager
Don Sweeney. Marchand would return for Game 6 of the series, but the Bruins would lose, and thus got eliminated by the Panthers for the second straight season, this time in the second round. On September 3, 2024, Marchand revealed he had undergone three separate surgeries earlier in the 2024 off-season to repair
sports hernias in both his groin and abdomen, which he suffered towards the end of the 2023–24 season, along with a torn tendon in his elbow, which he first sustained in the 2023 off-season and which he played through the entire previous 2023–24 season. On October 26, 2024, in a 4–3 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Marchand recorded the overtime winner and his first goal of the
2024–25 season with the goal on Maple Leafs' goaltender
Anthony Stolarz. This would mark the 20th overtime winning goal for Marchand, making him the third player in NHL history to record at least 20 overtime winning goals throughout a career, joining
Pittsburgh Penguins forward and captain
Sidney Crosby and
Washington Capitals forward and captain
Alexander Ovechkin.
Florida Panthers (2025–present) in April 2025 On March 7, 2025, Marchand was traded to the
Florida Panthers in exchange for a conditional 2027 second-round pick, and the Bruins retained 50 percent of Marchand’s contract. Due to an injury suffered against the
Pittsburgh Penguins one week prior, Marchand did not immediately play for the Panthers. He returned from injury a couple weeks later, and made his Panthers debut on March 28, where he assisted on the overtime game-winning goal against the
Utah Hockey Club. Marchand scored his first playoff goal for the Panthers on May 7, the second Florida goal in a 4–3 loss to Toronto in game 2 of the second round of the playoffs. During the Panthers' series against the Maple Leafs, Marchand played in his 13th career game 7, tying him with
Scott Stevens for the second all-time in NHL playoff history. It was also his fifth game 7 against the Maple Leafs. He scored two assists and an
empty net goal in a 6–1 victory over Toronto, which gave him his eighth career game 7 victory, tying him for first all-time. With the win, Marchand became the first player in NHL history to win five winner-take-all games over the same franchise, having beaten the Maple Leafs in a game 7 in 2013, 2018, 2019, and 2024 as well. Marchand scored a goal and an assist in five games in the Eastern Conference Final against the
Carolina Hurricanes to return to the
Stanley Cup Final for the fourth time in his career. In the Finals against the
Edmonton Oilers, in game two, Marchand scored on a shorthanded breakaway, then in double-overtime, scored the winner on another breakaway, to tie the series 1–1. The Panthers would go on to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup against the Oilers for Marchand's second career championship. Across 23 playoff games, Marchand recorded 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points, three game-winning goals, and a
plus-minus of +17, tying for the 32nd highest plus-minus in a single playoff season. Marchand's performance made him a finalist for the
Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP but the award was ultimately given to teammate
Sam Bennett. On July 1, 2025, Marchand opted to forgo
free agency and signed a six-year, $31.5 million contract to remain with the Panthers. In late October 2025, Marchand briefly stepped away from the team to guest coach a tribute game in the
Nova Scotia U18 Major Hockey League for the late daughter of his longtime trainer and friend
JP MacCallum. On November 14, 2025, Marchand recorded his 1,000th career NHL point during a 6-3 home victory for the Panthers over the
Washington Capitals. He produced two assists, with the milestone assist coming on an empty-net goal by
Eetu Luostarinen with under two minutes remaining. In early March 2026, it was announced that Marchand would be reviewed for potential surgery due to a lower body injury that he had been maintaining and playing with for an extended time. On March 31, it was concerned that while Marchand would not have surgery for his injury he would remain out for the remainder of the
2025–26 season. He had been second on the team in scoring prior to his injury with 27 goals and third in points with 54 points. ==International play==