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Video: Marchand taunts Canucks with championship miming

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Update: PHT’s Jason Brough reports that Brad Marchand also accused Ryan Kesler of gouging his eyes tonight. Oh boy.

The Vancouver Canucks beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Saturday, so one could say they got the last laugh.

That “last laugh” saying might need to be tweaked for sports with 82-game seasons, however. Is it really best that the Canucks got the last laugh, or that the Bruins laughed the “loudest”? One might guess that Marchand would be making an argument for the latter, as his hand motions evoked memories of the Bruins’ victory in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.

NESN mined Marchand’s two moments of Championship pantomiming.

There’s the “invisible Stanley Cup overhead lift and kiss” move:

Not to be outdone, he rolled out the less elaborate kissing-of-the-ring gesture:

So, what’s the verdict? Are you outraged or excited by the 25-year-old antics? Or maybe you’re a little bit of both?

For what it’s worth, this isn’t the only time that Marchand made a gesture to mock his opponents, as he made fun of the Toronto Maple Leafs back in 2011 with a golf swing motion.

At least he’s not pulling an Andrew Ference and going full-on obscene (yet?) though, right?

This marks Vancouver’s seventh win in a row, by the way.

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