Brad Marchand’s best and worst team, in ten different categories

Brad Marchand has played 1,152 NHL games and taken 1,153 penalty minutes. One a night, for sixteen years, rounded to the minute.

The club-by-club breakdown of it is in Brad Marchand’s penalty minutes against every NHL team. What follows is his full record against all 32 franchises he has faced, sorted ten ways, through the 2025-26 season. Games played are in every row.

Which team does Brad Marchand take the most penalties against?

Montreal by total, Nashville by rate.

PIM per gameTotal PIMGP
Nashville Predators1.794324
Dallas Stars1.623924
Tampa Bay Lightning1.528254
Career1.001,1531,152

By raw total it is Montreal, at 83 penalty minutes in 59 games, with Tampa Bay one behind on 82 in 54. Tampa is the one built on both volume and rate, which makes it the most durable figure here.

For scale: Sidney Crosby’s career rate is 0.63 penalty minutes a game, Alex Ovechkin’s is 0.54 and Connor McDavid’s is 0.42. Marchand’s is roughly double Crosby’s and more than double McDavid’s.

Scale runs the other way too. Bob Probert’s penalty minutes against every NHL team puts him at 3,300 in 935 games, a rate of 3.53.

Which team does Brad Marchand behave himself against?

St. Louis, at 0.35 penalty minutes a game, barely a third of his career rate. Colorado is next at 0.50.

The Utah franchise has never taken a penalty minute off him in its Utah incarnation, though the Arizona years account for 16.

The paradox in the middle of the record

Marchand takes a penalty a game. He also has 36 career shorthanded goals, against 90 on the power play.

Only 20% of Marchand’s goals have come with the man advantage, against 30% for Crosby and 36% for Ovechkin. He is one of the most productive penalty-killers of his era and one of its most penalized forwards at the same time.

Pittsburgh has given up four of those shorthanded goals, more than anyone. Buffalo, Calgary and Florida have given up three each.

Which team does Brad Marchand score most against?

Los Angeles, at 0.72 goals per game, nearly double his career rate.

Goals per gameGoalsGP
Los Angeles Kings0.721825
Calgary Flames0.621524
Dallas Stars0.621524
Career0.394511,152

By volume, it is Buffalo with 27 goals in 68 games.

Which team does Brad Marchand score least against?

The New York Rangers, at 0.21 goals a game across 52 meetings, and that is a real sample.

Eleven goals in 52 games, on 108 shots, a conversion rate of 10.2%. Both are his worst figures against any club he has faced more than 25 times.

Which team does Brad Marchand set up most against?

The Rangers, at 0.65 assists per game, over 52 games.

Against the Rangers, Marchand has 11 goals and 34 assists. It is the only long rivalry on his record where the assists outnumber the goals more than three to one.

Which team does Brad Marchand shoot best and worst against?

Best against Minnesota at 25.6%, worst against Seattle at 7.1%, and neither means much.

Shooting %ShotsGoals
Minnesota Wild25.64311
Los Angeles Kings24.37418
Vancouver Canucks22.66214
Career15.32,948451
Anaheim Ducks10.8374
New York Rangers10.210811
Seattle Kraken7.1282

The Rangers row is the only one at either end built on more than 80 shots.

Which team has Brad Marchand beaten most often by himself?

Tampa Bay, with 7 game-winning goals of the 85 he has scored, from a club he has also taken 82 penalty minutes against.

Detroit is next on 6, then Florida and Nashville on 5 each. Five franchises have never lost a game to a Marchand winner: Anaheim, Boston, Seattle, St. Louis and Vegas.

Which team does Brad Marchand look best and worst against on the ice?

Best against Buffalo at plus 25 across 68 games, his largest sample against anybody. Philadelphia is next at plus 23.

Worst against Edmonton at minus 3. Only four clubs hold a negative figure against him at all, and none of them is worse than that: Edmonton, Anaheim and Boston at minus 2 each, Washington at minus 1. Marchand has finished on the plus side against 27 of the 32 clubs he has faced.

Which team does Brad Marchand shoot at most?

Buffalo, 183 shots in 68 games, ahead of Toronto on 176 and Pittsburgh on 171. All three are long Eastern rivalries, and all three have watched him do it for most of two decades.

The two games against Boston

Marchand played sixteen seasons for the Bruins before the trade to Florida, and has faced them twice since. No goals, two assists, two penalty minutes, minus 2.
It is the smallest row in the table and the only one that is a biography rather than a statistic.