{"id":1543569,"date":"2022-07-07T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543569"},"modified":"2022-07-07T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:34:26","slug":"former-nhl-player-bryan-marchment-dies-suddenly-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nhl-player-bryan-marchment-dies-suddenly-at-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHL Player Bryan Marchment Dies Suddenly At 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-nhl-player-bryan-marchment-dies-suddenly-at-53%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543569&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Former NHL defenseman Bryan Marchment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/nhl\/former-nhl-defenseman-bryan-marchment-dies-at-53\/2022\/07\/06\/bd5ab8fa-fd5c-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html\">died<\/a> on Wednesday in Montreal at the age of 53, as was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nhl-sports-hockey-canada-san-jose-sharks-946c48f2568a899bf355a1932882cb1b\">confirmed<\/a> by his agent Rick Curran to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Marchment was in Montreal at the NHL draft as a scout for the San Jose Sharks. The cause of death was not immediately announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day for for me personally, a very sad day for our organization,\u201d Mike Grier, the newly named Sharks general manager, said. \u201cHe meant a lot to a lot of people in our organization, our players, our staff \u2014 anyone who knew Brian, the type of man he was. He was just an honest, a down-to-earth, loving person who just cared about everyone. He had time for everyone in the building. Anyone he came across, he had time for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Grier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/former-nhl-defenseman-bryan-marchment-134657990.html\">said<\/a> Marchment \u201cwas great to me\u201d throughout the duration of their time playing together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c[Marchment] treated me with respect right away and made me feel at home, and if I ever needed anything, whether it was a dinner, a home-cooked dinner, instead of eating out every day, he and (wife) Kim would have me over,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Grier said the team employees would continue to work at the draft with sadness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI gave them some time to regroup and have some time to themselves and process and grieve,\u201d he said. \u201cI know \u2018Mush\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s what he would say. He would want us to get back to work and do our best and have the best draft possible, so we\u2019ll get back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cJust shocking and devastating news,\u201d Chuck Fletcher, general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/nhl\/former-nhl-defenseman-bryan-marchment-dies-at-53\/2022\/07\/06\/bd5ab8fa-fd5c-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cVery young man. Obviously, you\u2019re thinking of his family and friends right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/1544763645082607617\">statement<\/a> on Twitter, the San Jose Sharks said, \u201cWe are heartbroken. Our deepest condolences go out to Bryan\u2019s family, friends and our Sharks community at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBryan\u2019s lifelong love of hockey was unparalleled, and he was amongst the most dedicated, physical, and fiercest players to ever play the game,\u201d the statement noted. \u201cHe spent more than 20 seasons with the Sharks organization \u2014 334 games as a player and 15 as a member of the Sharks scouting department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMost importantly, Bryan was a loving son, husband, and father. Our deepest condolences go out to his parents, his wife Kim and son Mason and daughter Logan,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Marchment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/former-nhl-defenseman-bryan-marchment-134657990.html\">retired<\/a> from hockey in 2006, he went on to work for the Sharks. According to People, Marchment scored 40 goals and 182 points throughout his hockey career, and in 1987, he was a first-round draft pick by the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Marchment\u2019s son also plays hockey in the position of forward for the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NHL defenseman Bryan Marchment died on Wednesday in Montreal at the age of 53, as was confirmed by his agent Rick Curran to the Associated Press. Marchment was in Montreal at the NHL draft as a scout for the San Jose Sharks. The cause of death was not immediately announced. \u201cIt\u2019s a sad day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1547057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}