{"id":249019,"date":"2025-10-30T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:49:07","slug":"panthers-marchand-steps-away-to-help-friend-after-daughters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249019\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Marchand steps away to help friend after daughter&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 29, 2025, 06:45 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>HALIFAX, Nova Scotia &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3852\/brad-marchand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Marchand<\/a> is stepping away from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/fla\/florida-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> to help a friend whose daughter died last week of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand is serving as a guest coach Wednesday night for the under-18 March and Mill Co. Hunters in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in place of friend JP MacCallum. Marchand is a co-owner of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a fundraiser for the family after the loss of 10-year-old Selah Panacci-MacCallum and includes a raffle for an autographed Marchand jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please join us in celebrating an amazing night at the rink made possible by the ongoing giving nature of a 10 year-old girl that loved the game with all her [heart],&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQZTZVjDgVY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marchand posted<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand missed Florida&#8217;s game Tuesday night against Anaheim. Coach Paul Maurice expects Marchand to be available when the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions face Dallas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 29, 2025, 06:45 PM ET HALIFAX, Nova Scotia &#8212; Brad Marchand is stepping away from the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}