Overview
- The longtime Bruins winger and former captain faces Boston for the first time since last season’s trade to Florida, with puck drop at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.
- Marchand said it will be hard not to get emotional returning to Boston and reunited off the ice with Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara, Tuukka Rask, and Adam McQuaid on Sunday.
- After helping the Panthers win the Stanley Cup, Marchand signed a six-year contract in the offseason to stay in Florida.
- Florida is short-handed, with Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk on long-term injured reserve and Dmitry Kulikov also out.
- Marchand leads the Panthers early with six points in seven games and was fined $5,000 for an unsportsmanlike incident involving Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin last weekend.