Report: Bruins sign Brad Marchand for EIGHT YEARS

Bobby Mac is making all of our Mondays so much sweeter today. Brad Marchand is staying for a long, long time for a very reasonable amount of money.

Brad Marchand's extension with BOS is done. Should be an 8-year deal at slightly more than $6M AAV.

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) September 26, 2016

This contract, the details of which we will update this post with, will take him through his age 36 season. The little hate-ball is 28, currently. When did he get that old and mature? The years are just marching on.

To all the people who tweeted variations on "Marchand is obviously going to Pittsburgh to play with Sidney Crosby based on his success in this very small sample size in a gimmick preseason tournament:

Thank you!