“HE’S JUST A HOCKEY TROUBLEMAKER.” — Whoopi Goldberg’s Comment Sparks Live TV Standoff with Brad Marchand! The words hung in the air, laced with dismissal, drawing nervous laughter from the audience. For a moment, Marchand did nothing. He nodded slowly. Breathed. Waited. His eyes didn’t leave the table in front of him. But then — as Whoopi kept pressing her point, describing him as “controversial, cocky, and hardly a role model” — the atmosphere in the studio shifted.