The Bruins didn’t need any of this during an already trying season. On Friday, WEEI’s Rich Keefe reported the team’s two biggest stars, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand, are beefing — a storyline both players quickly denied.

Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins is taking a radio host to task after a report that teammate David Pastrnak refused to play on the same line with him A report on Friday which indicated there was a major rift within the Boston Bruins has been called out by one of the players named in the report.

The Boston Bruins are mired in a season-worst six-game losing streak. From the outside perspective, it would be easy to claim that tensions are on the rise within the Bruins’ locker room, which is why Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak firmly pushed back against a report that the two are at odds with one another on Friday.