Marshall started the season on the 4th line, rotating with a few other wingers in and out of the lineup. As a result, he only played 42 games this season. During which, he played with four different players. For the first half of the season, it was Bob Poppinfresh at center, and either Jax Gracie or William Reynolds on the opposite wing. They didn’t have much success, but about halfway through the year, Poppinfresh was dropped from the team, and Reynolds stopped receiving ice time. In the back half of the season, newly acquired free agent Alexander Kozlov would be Marshall’s regular center-iceman, while Gracie would be the other winger. They would start playing together consistently (no more rotating in and out of the lineup) and have some success together. Despite their limited ice-time (they still played on the 4th line), they produced some offense together, and weren’t all that bad defensively. Kozlov is a perfect example of that, being just a -2 since he arrived. This is pretty good considering the Timber were the second worst team in the league. All-in-all Marshall’s season wasn’t anything to ride home about, but it got better once he started playing with Kozlov and Gracie on a regular basis.

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