{"id":921021,"date":"2026-10-05T03:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921021\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:06:37","slug":"panthers-brad-marchand-makes-season-debut-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921021\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Brad Marchand makes season debut against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of a key forward loss, another has returned for the <a data-team=\"florida-panthers\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player=\"42eba095-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/brad-marchand\/42eba095-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brad Marchand<\/a> made his season debut Sunday against the Anaheim Ducks, and scored a late equalizer before the Panthers fell 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand had not played since early March, when he was shut down for the season. He revealed in August that he underwent surgery after being dogged by a lower-body issue for much of last season. Florida&#8217;s hopes of contending for what would have been a third consecutive Stanley Cup last season were derailed by injuries throughout the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old&#8217;s return \u2014 earlier than expected after the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/panthers-marchand-to-rehab-through-october-gadjovich-out-indefinitely\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initially said<\/a> he&#8217;d rehab through October \u2014 came days after captain Aleksander Barkov was placed on long-term injured reserve with a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand missed a career-high 30 games last season. Still, he remained effective with 27 goals and 27 assists for 54 points in 52 games he did suit up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of a key forward loss, another has returned for the Florida Panthers. Brad Marchand made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-921021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921021","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=921021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}