Since the start of the World Cup of Hockey, Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand has scored at a prolific rate. No matter the setting, no matter the team or linemates, Marchand has figured out a way to put points on the board the last several weeks

The agitating winger started the season with for Team Canada where he was the designated sniper on the top scoring line with Sidney Crosby and Patrice Bergeron. Marchand finished that tournament with five goals and eight points in six games. One of these goals was the tournament clincher.

Since then, he has continued to torment opposing defenses with three goals and six assists in four games with the Bruins. In his first game of the season, the 5-foot-9 Marchand notched five points.

“I think it has been fun. I’m definitely feeling good right now on the ice and feel confident to make plays,” Marchand said in a recent phone interview with Puck Daddy. “But I think a lot of it is preparation and I think I’ve just learned how to prepare myself for each game and I’m confident when I go on the ice.”

Marchand is one of the NHL’s more interesting players. He’s a pest who turned himself into an elite scorer with 37 goals last season, up from a prior career high of 28 in 2011-12.

As prime years for players around the league seem to keep dropping to earlier in their careers, the 28-year-old Marchand has improved as he has gotten older. The Boston Bruins lavished Marchand with an eight-year, $49 million contract announced during the World Cup.

[Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Hockey contest now]

We asked Marchand about his hot start, playing with Crosby, playing in Boston and Phil Kessel getting the ‘Brad Marchand Treatment’ from President Obama during a trip to the White House.

Q: Did you ever get tired of hearing ‘We Dem Boyz’ (Canada’s goal song) during the World Cup? It felt like it was on loop the whole tournament.

MARCHAND: If it was playing, it was a good thing so I enjoyed every time it came on we had some fun with it.

Was it ever stuck in your head? Like did you want to make it your ringtone?

That’s a song that brings back a lot of memories. That was also our goal song at the World Championships this past year and that’s part of the reason we had it at the World Cup. It brings back good memories so I enjoy it every time it comes on.

There was a point during the World Cup when you were at a news conference and were asked about possibly going to the Pittsburgh Penguins as an unrestricted free agent. Two days later you signed a long-term deal with the Bruins and pointed out you knew you would return to Boston for a while. Did you ever want to use that moment to just shut down the rumors?

It made it a little more entertaining for me knowing that all this stuff was coming out. I knew that at the time the deal was going to get done with Boston so I was having a good chuckle with it and a good time, but I would have liked to have shut it down at the time so there wasn’t any pressure on the team or myself where people were pushing for me to leave or anything like that, thinking I was going to leave. It would have been nice to shut it down, but I had a little bit of fun with it.

Did you think of not having the contract announced until after the World Cup? You seemed to take that tournament seriously and that could have been a distraction.

There was but there’s also risks for both teams in a situation like that and it’s not something you’re able to do. It was also something that was kind of looming over my head and it was a lot of attention being brought towards the fact that I hadn’t signed and there were a lot of people asking me about it all the time, so I decided to get it done and get it over-with and kind of shut the door and not have to talk about it anymore. That way the main focus and all my focus was completely on the World Cup and there was nothing kind of hanging over it. The contract at times was and there were people talking about it and that’s the last thing I really wanted to be talking about when I was at that event. It was such a special time and I worked so hard all summer and I didn’t want anything to take away from that. Being there was a dream come true. I was just happy to have it done.

You, Bergeron and Crosby seemed to have such good chemistry. Have you two pushed for Sid to come to Boston?

Story continues