COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bruce Cassidy couldn't help but smile.
In his early days as an assistant coach with the Providence Bruins, Brad Marchand was also coming onto the scene as a pesky winger out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Marchand, who was known as more of an agitator, was not considered to be more than a bottom-six NHLer.
Over a decade later, those projections could not have been more wrong and Cassidy - now Boston's bench boss - could not be more pleased.
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