VIDEO: Franklin’s Dylan McEvoy scores in playoff win over St. Mary’s
Dylan McEvoy, one of Franklin’s captains, scores his team’s second goal in a 3-2 Division 1 playoff win over St. Mary’s (Lynn) on Feb. 28, 2024
FRANKLIN – Marchand and McEvoy will be skating on Loring Arena ice. Bergeron was there 18 months ago.
A Bruins takeover in Framingham? Not quite.
Boston’s well-known skaters with the NFL lineman numbers (63 and 73) will face the Toronto Maple Leafs Thursday night at TD Garden. Twenty-two miles west, Franklin and Xaverian meet for the first time since 2015 in a boys hockey Division 1 quarterfinal at Loring.
Franklin captain Dylan McEvoy will see plenty of ice time, but don’t look for him on the blue line like his Bruins almost namesake (with just a letter of difference), Charlie McAvoy. The pair don’t even shoot from the same side: Dylan is a lefty.
Logan Marchand, also a Franklin captain, does not create havoc near the net like Brad Marchand; Logan is a defenseman, though his 20 points are by far the most for Panther blue-liners.
Their games and uniform numbers are different (Logan wears No. 14; Dylan No. 9) and Franklin players don’t wear names on their backs, but the Panther pair enjoy their connection to the B’s.
“I take a bunch of pride in that,” Dylan McEvoy said. “(Charlie McAvoy is) known in the hockey world. And I’m trying to get my name out there and play better.”
“It’s cool to look up to someone with the same last name as you,” Logan Marchand said.
They also enjoy having a little fun when people hear their last names.
“Kids ask me every day, ‘are you related to Charlie McAvoy? Is that your cousin?”’ said Dylan, who has four goals in two playoff games. “I screw around with them, like, ‘yeah that’s my cousin.’”
“It’s exciting because you get asked pretty much every single day if you’re related or not,” Logan said. “It’s fun to mess around with people and say you are, when you’re really not.”
Brad Marchand, who earned his 600th career win in a Bruins uniform on Monday, is known for not just his team-record 11 consecutive 20-goal seasons but for his, let’s say, unpopularity among opponents and fans across North America. He’s been suspended eight times and even the president has weighed in on his salty play when Barack Obama called him a “little ball of hate” when the Bruins visited the White House after winning the Stanley Cup in 2011.
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