{"id":186830,"date":"2026-03-11T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:30:14","slug":"marchand-out-weeks-for-panthers-may-need-surgery-for-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186830\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchand out ‘weeks’ for Panthers, may need surgery for lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brad Marchand<\/a>\u00a0will find out in the coming days if he needs surgery for a lingering lower-body injury, Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice said Monday.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old forward missed 10 games prior to the Olympic Winter Games Milano Corina 2026 last month, when he won a silver medal with Team Canada. Marchand had one assist in four games.<\/p>\n

“There’s going to be a decision made on what’s the best way to get him to 100 percent full health,” Maurice said. “I think even if there isn’t [surgery], we’re still talking long-term; like, this isn’t going to be a couple of days. We’re into weeks.<\/p>\n

“\u2026 He has been dealing with something for a couple of months, [but] we have been able to maintain it.”<\/p>\n

Marchand was held out of two games at the Olympics, but he did play in the gold medal game against the United States on Feb. 22, a 2-1 overtime loss.<\/p>\n

He ranks second on the Panthers in goals (27) and points (54) in 52 games. Florida (32-29-3) has won the Stanley Cup each of the past two seasons but trails the Boston Bruins by 11 points for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maurice said Marchand has been dealing with the injury for some time and “we were really pleased and quite surprised we had not run into this earlier.”<\/p>\n

“There were times where he didn’t play and kind of maintained it, came back in,” Maurice said. “It got to the point on this road trip where it was never recovering; [it was] just getting worse. We’re hopeful that we got it early enough that it isn’t … well, we’ll know this week what it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brad Marchand\u00a0will find out in the coming days if he needs surgery for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-186830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}