Brad Marchand steps up for the employees at TD Garden.

There are a number of owners around the National Hockey League that have not yet made the commitment to pay arena employees their wages during the shutdown of play in the NHL due to the coronavirus outbreak, and unsurprisingly front and center among those owners who have made "The Naughty List" is notorious Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs.

Jacobs has made a number of very unpopular decisions over the past several years, including a recent decision to pack fans into TD Garden arena like a bunch of sardines in a can, and as a result fans of the Boston Bruins have found many reasons to criticize the man behind their beloved team in spite of the fact that they continue to support the players themselves in droves. Jacobs however has once again found himself the subject of criticism due to the fact that he has found himself on the aforementioned naughty list, but in spite of the fact that the Jacobs family has not pledged to pay the arena staff during the suspension of the 2019 - 2020 NHL regular season it appears that once again Boston's beloved players are coming to the rescue.

In a recent post published on social media notorious Boston Bruins agitator Brad Marchand revealed that he and some other members of the Bruins roster were stepping up in a big way by raising funds for the staff members that will be without a living wage over the next several weeks as the NHL attempts to determine how to handle the outbreak. Marchand shared a link to a GoFundMe page that is attempting to collect 250,000 for those impacted by the suspension of play, a GoFundMe that calls on Bruins and Celtics fans alike to pledge their support.

From the GoFundMe page:

COVID-19 precautions have led to pauses in NHL, NBA and Garden event activity.  Hundreds of loyal TD Garden workers will lose considerable and critical income during the suspension of events.  Bruins and Celtics fans should step up and help these families fill the void caused by this terrible health crisis.  We should come together as a community to demonstrate our strength, mutual loyalty and commitment.

Although players like Marchand, Joakim Nordstrom and David Pastrnak have already pledged money out of their own pockets, the response to Marchand's call for help appears to thus far be overwhelming criticism of the aforementioned Jeremy Jacobs and the Jacobs family.