{"id":455057,"date":"2026-02-05T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:02:12","slug":"panthers-brad-marchand-sam-bennett-to-play-vs-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455057\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers’ Brad Marchand, Sam Bennett to play vs. Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The forward returned to the ice for Wednesday’s game against the Boston Bruins after previous reports stated that he would be out for the contest.<\/p>\n

Marchand had not played since Jan. 29, when he exited a game against the St. Louis Blues. The Team Canada forward has played 45 games this season around injuries, tallying 25 goals and 25 assists.<\/p>\n

Sam Bennett<\/a> was also good to go on Wednesday after leaving Monday’s loss to the Buffalo Sabres with an upper-body injury. Bennett was added to Team Canada’s Olympic roster on Tuesday as an injury replacement for Anthony Cirelli.<\/p>\n

Anton Lundell<\/a> is also likely to return against the Bruins after missing the past three games with an upper-body injury. He is also off to the Olympics as a member of Team Finland. <\/p>\n

The men’s Olympic hockey tournament begins on Feb. 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The forward returned to the ice for Wednesday’s game against the Boston Bruins after previous reports stated that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-455057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455057","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=455057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}