Brad Marchand is no stranger to big games. Now in his 17th NHL season, he’s been to the Stanley Cup Final four times, he’s experienced the peak of achievement, the excruciating pain of failure and everything in between.

Well, almost.

Marchand has never experienced what he will on Tuesday night. For the first time in his professional career, the 37-year-old Marchand will step on to the TD Garden ice not as a member of the Boston Bruins but as a part of the two-time defending Cup champion Florida Panthers, a team that ended the B’s season in 2023 and ‘24.

As he met with reporters after the Panthers practice at the Garden on Monday, the former B’s captain was relaxed and jovial. There will be nerves and emotions on Tuesday, to be sure, but he doesn’t want that to get in the way of letting

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