The Call for Shawn Thornton

“Guys are so anxious and excited, they’ll do whatever they can out there,” said Marchand. “Sometimes you get the sticks high, you get a little dirty. The games are getting pretty emotional, guys taking shots at each other, runs at each other.”

So for that reason, the thought arises before tonight’s Game 2 that it’s time the Bruins get rugged winger Shawn Thornton back into the lineup, and let rookie Tyler Seguin, whose play has slipped, sit.