Patrice Bergeron Talks Career, Retirement, Relationship With Brad Marchand & More | 32 Thoughts 

Me too, he's just something else, truly special on and off the ice. Consummate professional and a good man.

Much respect to Boston from Seattle. You guys are the best!

I can vouch for this comment. I valeted for the Bruins during the 2018 Stanley Cup in Boston and he gave me a handshake daps and a hug while in line at Dunkin in the Garden. He recognized me and gave me big ups! Love PB37 👍🏻💪🏻🐻

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Can’t bergy be like a trainer for the bruins? Something to keep him with us?

Boston are great…. I’m from Seattle and even though we beat Boston at home, we have nothing but love for the Bruins-the best team in the NHL. Go Bruins and Kraken!!!!

Same

Damn. That’s the gayest comment I’ve ever read 🤣

@@Pattyboytheking Your mother put her cigs out on your head for sure

He and Hank are two legends and leaders who we all were lucky enough to watch for multiple decades.

People underestimate Marchand's commitment to improvement. I recall early on his propensity to hold onto the puck too long , get fancy, then lose it. Now, he's one of the premier puck possession guys in the league. Quick release but little accuracy? Now he hits like there's a laser sight on his stick. Hell, thanks to Bergeron getting booted off the dot half the time, he's probably got a great faceoff stat. Yes, he gets wild. Yes, his trolley can jump the tracks. But there's also been games they've won they wouldn't have if Marchand didn't strap the team to his back and carry it with shear will.

Another North Idaho fan. Bruins thru and thru. Went to watch them beat Vegas last year going to Seattle this year. Bergy is my all time fav.

He is the best defensive forward of all time though having 5 selkes, and one of the best at winning face-offs in the NHL

The basic stats don't match up to Gretzky, ovi, jagr, etc...sure, but he's always been at least above average offensively, and the defensive aspect makes up for the numbers keeping him from the absolute top.

He recreated the importance of winning the faceoff. His stats suffered because after the 07' season he led the team in points with 70, but was a -28. He swore he wouldn't allow himself to be - minus player. He would only allow himself to be a player who would play both ends of the ice! So it's not that he didn't have the talent to be a big point producer. He just took pride in playing being great as a complete player as there EVER was! Hard pressed to name one better! 11 straight seasons to finish top 3 in voting for an individual trophy again is going to be tough to beat! Orr is on another level, but Bergy knocked down, Neely & Bourque & he's my favorite player behind Orr!

His stats are actually pretty damn impressive as well. Not like a top 10 point scorer or anything but a definitive superstar

an absolute legend

leafs catching strays as usual lmao

As a teenaged Bruins fan, I hated the Canadiens in the '80s. They always beat Boston in the playoffs. Eighteen consecutive playoff series victories, going back to the '40s. The last four were in '84, '85, '86, and '87. When the Bruins finally beat them in '88, in Montreal no less, it was even more satisfying to me than winning the Cup in 2011. I attended a Bruins game at the Forum in '91 or '92 and no one bothered me, even though I wore a Bruins sweatshirt (there were several thousand more Bruins fans in attendance). I've always remembered that. Now that I've seen many Boston sports championships (and mellowed with age), I'm much more casual about being a fan, and the hate for rivals has turned to respect. I will be happy for whatever Canadian team ends the national Stanley Cup drought.

haha totally agree. I lived in Montreal for 20 yrs as a huge Bruins fan and was brave enough to put a Bruins bumper sticker on my car. When we see both those historic jerseys together on the ice, it's a beautiful love/hate feeling. The Leafs don't bring that emotion, they're just annoying. Bergeron is my favorite player of all time - all around class act product of Quebec.

@@kaboom9081 Ray Bourque (from Montreal) and Patrice Bergeron (from Quebec City) are my favorite and second-favorite players of all-time. I was 9 when Bourque joined the Bruins and 30 when he left, so he'll always be #1. One of them has played for the Bruins in 40 of the last 43 seasons.

Bruins fan here. We love the rivalry too! Makes for some amazing hockey

Without a doubt

Greatest bruin ever in my opinion

Man no lying, I might cry when he retires. He's been the heart and soul of the team for so long...i was still practically a kid when he showed up, now I'm 43 and he's still doing it, even better than 10 years ago. He's incredible at his game, and incredible as a person. Seriously I wish most people could be like him, this world would be much better.

@@fromulus hall of famer

I don't think you could tell his first language is French from listening to him as he barely even has a French accent any more. He sounds almost like an Anglo Canadian (to non-Canadian ears).

As Quebecois, he impressed me a lot. But I would say it's the effect of full immersion for years. Denis Potvin, Marcel Dionne, Gil Perreault, Martin St-Louis, Marty Brodeur , Mario Lemieux and so and are very fluent, but, as opposed to most Swedish or Germans, they were not fluent at all when they were 18.

I was thinking the same exactly. We grew up in the same area of Québec and as much as I wish I had his English, I'm impressed he's still just as good when being interviewed in French. Often times, francophones who stay in the NHL for that long struggle when they come back to their initial language, but he's perfectly fluent in both.

💯 agree! I was thinking the same thing. It’s very intimate

well said. love this interview

Agreed..really class act!

Yeah no... take the ciggs off this guy.

Most likely he's going to bring back his hometown team that became the Avalanche They're bringing back the Nordiques But, he says Boston is his home so.. who knows Maybe he'll find the next little ball of hate that fans will approve of An adult that beats up his wife and kids, not a child who does it to another child 🙄

@@TheFoolintherainn Remember, he was a Nordiques fan, never an Avs fan. Bruins for life, it would be a shocker if he were to enter a management role that isn't on the Bruins.

@@AWCTB yep, you got it -Boston is his home, and he plans on working with Boston to expand hockey - but I don't know that he'd be working directly with the nhl/ahl bruins. That doesn't expand hockey. He's going to be in a more historic role. this is actually been in the news over the last 10 years and the NHL doesn't cover it I'm in alaska, I notice sometimes we get different internet news than the lower 48 - the boy-child prime minister of Canada has gotten involved in NHL affiliation teams - he was pissed that Vegas was chosen a few years ago He wants to bring a team back to Montreal and that would be the nordiques. The past 3 years when bergeron's retirement has come up, the scuttlebutt about him going to Montreal would also arise and we knew darn well he would never ever be a Hab. Yep Patrice did make statements that he would like to help develop more hockey teams.. So that's why I think if bergey's going to get involved in DEVELOPING any NEW team, it would be the bringing back the nordiques. He just stated in his interview last week, Boston is his home - (it is a lot like liberal Canadian cities) But I think he may get involved on some level with the nordiquess cuz he wants hockey back in Montreal and all they have are Habs I could see him bringing Nordiques back to his hometown. He has never said a flat out "no" to involvement in Montreal Canadian hockey leagues, just no to Habs He's been asked this question directly, reporters have stopped asking cuz they know he's not going to answer - and they won't get interviews with Patrice if they keep annoying him with the same questions! So he could very well end up bringing back the Nordiques Who could turn out to be an affiliation for the bruins! Could you imagine that rivalry between a new Boston affiliate Nordiques team and the Habs! They'll be riots in the streets! Lol!

I honestly think he was about to say Auston Matthews when saying about the shot, but he realized fans wouldn’t like that too much so he switched to Pasta. Obviously I could be wrong

yes lol get Sweeney outa there, dudes a clown.

If only Islander fans had that logic.

​@Notorious Eagle if you're referring to Tavares here, I don't think Tavares had contributed half as much to the islanders that bergeron has contributed to Boston lmao

From the other side is I-90!

I know it’s not a hockey analogy, but I think a lot of us here in Boston feel similarly about s guy like Derek Jeter who captained the New York Yankees for a very long time. Great leadership and humanity transcends rivalry and tribalism. It’s really special to have had Patrice as a person, player, and leader here in Boston. We are spoiled.

Brilliant 😂