Brad Marchand, Panthers beat Bruins, 4-3, in a wild finish

22.10.2025    Boston Herald    3 views
Brad Marchand, Panthers beat Bruins, 4-3, in a wild finish

With his ever-present flair for the dramatic Brad Marchand met his moments both early and late on Tuesday and his Florida Panthers teammates not to mention serendipity made sure he left Causeway Street with a smile After Morgan Geekie tied the tournament with left with the goalie pulled the Panthers got a fluky game-winner when Carter Verhaeghe hit the post and the long rebound went off Andrew Peeke s skate and into the net with seconds left That gave the Panthers an entertaining emotion-packed and tad bizarre - conquest over the Bruins in Marchand s first encounter back to the Garden The Bruins wiped out a two-goal Florida Panther lead early in the third period but Marchand helped the Panthers regain the lead on Eetu Luostarinen s goal midway through the period But the Panthers and tell me if you heard this before came out on top in a wild final minute Unsurprisingly the evening belonged to Marchand He was cheered by the early birds when he came out for warmups A growing sea of s roared when Marchand per usual was the last to leave the ice at the end of warmups And he got an ovation when he was introduced in Florida s starting lineup The first shift was vintage Marchand In a matter of seconds he stole the puck once in the Boston zone then a second time in the neutral zone after which he drew a tripping penalty on Tanner Jeannot Twenty-eight seconds later he picked up the primary assist in a goalmouth scrum that resulted in Mackie Samoskevich s power-play goal But the Marchand highlight of the night came at the first TV timeout Tribute videos on the Jumbotron have become de riguer in majority of buildings for returning players in all NHL buildings but this one had selected heft to it There were clips of Marchand goals fights hospital visits and family clips the last of which certainly got the former Bruin captain to crack He at first tried to hide the tears but that was no use He let them flow freely as he repeatedly tapped his heart and saluted the crowd When play resumed the crowd chanted Marchy Marchy Marchy Quite exclusively it was the the majority spine-tingling moment for a returning Stanley Cup winner to the Garden to date Somehow Marchand was able to shake it off and get back to the event in which the Panthers were looking a little more like themselves after losing their previous Sergei Bobrovsky did have to make a good save on break-in from Mark Kastelic and Jeffrey Viel tried to get the B s going with a bout against Jonah Gadjovich eventually forcing the Panther onto his back Florida took the - lead into the first intermission over the B s who were playing without Hampus Lindholm They pushed it to - at into the second Fraser Minten won a faceoff in the dot to the left of Jeremy Swayman But Gadjovich sneaked his stick in to keep it alive old friend A J Greer absolutely beat Mason Lohrei to the puck at the bottom of the circle and snapped it short side by Swayman That one earned Lohrei certain time on the pine on the next shift but he got back out on the power play after Marchand took a hooking penalty yeah he got cheered for him skating to his second home too But the B s stayed on the perimeter on the advantage and didn t land a shot They had another nothin -doin power play before the B s thought briefly that they had halved the deficit when Mikey Eyssimont jammed the puck in under Bobrovsky s pad but it was forthwith waved off as it was ruled the Bruin shoved the goalie s pad But after killing a penalty at the end of the second and another at the start of the third and after Swayman robbed Sam Bennett on a backdoor play the Bruins made it a competition First Viktor Arvidsson hustled down low to get a puck and dish it out front to Casey Mittelstadt Scratched on Sunday in Utah Mittelstadt made a cute redirect to Pavel Zacha for a tap-in at Then the B s made a power play count as Elias Lindholm tipped a David Pastrnak shot and it sneaked through Sergei Bobrovsky at Nikita Zadorov of the Boston Bruins checks Brad Marchand of the Florida Panthers during the first period Photo By Matt Stone Boston Herald The B s had a chance to take the lead when they got another power play at when Evan Rodrigues tripped Pastrnak but they could not cash in But at the Panthers regained the lead and of class Marchand had a hand in the go-ahead tally In the neutral zone Marchand made a nice backhand pass to Eetu Luostarinen and he did the rest Luostarinen got around Lohrei and roofed it past Swayman

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