Brad Marchand has hilarious demand for David Pastrnak

By now, you've heard of the two major matters of business that were taken care of by the NHL-leading Boston Bruins today. In the first place, they acquired scrappy forward Tyler Bertuzzi from the Detroit Red Wings, helping to bolster their lineup after having placed Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno on IR.

Additionally, they locked up goal scoring forward David Pastrnak to an eight year contract extension, finally putting to rest the contract negotiations between the two sides. The eight year, $90 million deal is the wealthiest in team history, and will see Pasta paid a total of $11.25 million per season. Quite the haul isn't it? 

Naturally, his teammates were happy to see him officially sticking around long term - and according to one particular teammate, he better be picking up the tab at dinner! 

“He better be buying every team dinner moving forward,” explained Brad Marchand with a smile. “I think that’s the expectation now.”

“I’m happy for him. He’s been having an incredible year and obviously his body of work is there. He’s been a great player for this team for a long time, so it’s good to see him getting rewarded,” Marchand continued. “It’s nice to have it done so it’s not hanging over his head or the teams’ head moving forward, and he can focus on playing and on us having a nice run here.

“It was one of those things where we knew the situation, but it’s a ton of pressure for players that are in that situation. Pasta isn’t the only guy in that situation. He’s one of them and obviously the biggest deal we were going to make, but there are multiple guys that are pending UFAs or RFAs and it’s a stressful time of year. We just let it go and let him do his thing. Obviously it gets brought up occasionally, but the last thing you want to do is add pressure to that. He played phenomenal and we just need that to continue now.”

“Obviously it’s great for him to get it done,” said Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron. “Obviously he’s been an impactful player for us. He’s a game-breaker. He has that ability, and he keeps taming his game to the next level so we’re super-happy and excited for him. We’re just glad that we can focus on playing and Pasta is obviously happy to not be asked about it again.”