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Sam Bennett<\/a>, named to Team Canada’s roster as an injury replacement for Anthony Cirelli<\/a>, could join Brad Marchand<\/a> and Anton Lundell<\/a> for a return against the Bruins on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, TNT, TVAS). Though neither Bennett nor Lundell took part in an optional practice Tuesday, Marchand wore a regular jersey. All three forwards are day to day. “Put Bennett, Lundell and Marchand all in the same category,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “There is a chance they all play tomorrow, and there’s a chance none of them do. We won’t know until after the morning skate.” … Bennett left a 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Monday with an upper-body injury after he was minus-1 in 5:11 of ice time. He has 42 points (19 goals, 23 assists) in 55 games. … Marchand (lower body) has missed two games, is on Team Canada’s Olympic roster and second on the Panthers with 50 points (25 goals, 25 assists) in 45 games. … Lundell (upper body), named to Team Finland’s roster, has missed three games in a row and skated before the game Monday. He has 36 points (15 goals, 21 assists) in 52 games. … forward Aleksander Barkov<\/a> (knee) and defenseman Dmitry Kulikov<\/a> (shoulder) were on the ice for a light workout. Barkov, the Panthers captain, hasn’t played all season and Kulikov has missed all but Florida’s first two games (Oct. 7 and Oct. 9). “When he walks by in his skates,” Maurice said of Barkov, “you realize how big of a man he is (6-foot-3, 214 pounds). You kind of miss him. It’s good to have him around, for sure. There’s a longing there when you see him walk through in his gear. We got a spot for him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Sam Bennett, named to Team Canada’s roster as an injury replacement for Anthony Cirelli, could join…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-456863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}