Brad Marchand trolls Vancouver Canucks for a brutal Jim Benning trade
The Vancouver Canucks social team probably wasn’t exactly expecting the notifications they saw on their account on Thursday evening.
Two days removed from their Stanley Cup win over the Edmonton Oilers, the Florida Panthers were still going on what’s been a pretty wild few consecutive parties.
And Brad Marchand was at the centre of it all.
At a team dinner that eventually turned into what looked like an epic night out at the club, Marchand took to Instagram to troll, well, about half the teams in the NHL.
On his stories, the 37-year-old Marchand began thanking various teams around the league directly for giving up on the players who helped the Panthers defeat the Oilers and win the Stanley Cup.
For the Canucks, Marchand shared a photo of Gustav Forsling, while also tagging the Chicago Blackhawks, Rockford IceHogs and Carolina Hurricanes, three other stops on the 29-year-old defender’s hockey journey before ending up in Florida.
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— Jameson Olive (@JamesonCoop) June 20, 2025
Forsling never actually played a game for the Canucks, when former Canucks GM Jim Benning traded him to Chicago for Adam Clendening less than a year after being drafted in the fifth round in 2014. Forsling was then traded to Carolina in 2019, before the Panthers claimed him off waivers in 2021.
Clendening, meanwhile, played just 17 games with the Canucks, before being shipped off to the Pittsburgh Penguins a trade centred around Nick Bonino and Brandon Sutter. He played a total of 86 more NHL games for five more teams, and is currently in the KHL.
Marchand didn’t appear to upload a similar story for former Canucks draft pick Jonah Gadjovich, who played one NHL game with the franchise after being selected in 2017. Gadjovich was also placed on waivers by Vancouver before heading to San Jose and then signing as a free agent in 2023 with the Panthers.
Even when the Canucks aren’t involved, they still somehow seem to find themselves tangled up in more NHL storylines than you can count.
Following the victory, former Canucks goalie and current Panthers front office member Roberto LuongoĀ spoke to Sportsnet about the special partnership he’s formed with Marchand, his old foe in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.
āI love Vancouver tooā¦ Brad, we had our battles. That was 15 years ago; we have to be able to move on. Heās a great player and an even better teammate. Weāre just happy to have him on our team, we saw what he did on this runā¦ he was a huge add to our team,ā Luongo said.
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