When asked if he would publicly criticize a player's career status as Mark Stone did, Marchand commented,
"It depends on the situation. If it was dirty or not; I thought that was a clean hit. But again, I was that kid one time, and I was doing that same stuff in intra-squad games, so I don't feel bad doing it to guys on opposing teams. So, that's part of the gig. It has kind of left the game a little bit because they're trying to get physicality out of hockey, but there's still kids that are going to do it. So, if you get comfortable out there not getting hit, it's going to happen at some point, but we're in training camp, and like I said, to make a team out of camp, you need to steal someone's job, which is ultimately someone's career, and you're not going to let that happen easily so regardless of whether it's intrasquad, or practice, or during games, you're going to get everybody's best, and everyone's highest compete. If you're not, then those guys don't deserve to be here."