NHL star Brad Marchand has returned home to Nova Scotia to serve as a guest coach at a tribute hockey game honouring the life of his longtime friend and trainer’s daughter, who died last week after a battle with cancer.

Marchand, who left the Florida Panthers Tuesday for what the team called “a death in his family circle,” will join his former Halifax Mooseheads teammate Andrew Bodnarchuk on the March & Mill Co. Hunters’ bench during Wednesday’s game against the Halifax McDonalds at the Halifax Forum.

Hunters owner JP MacCallum lost his 10-year-old daughter, Selah Panacci-MacCallum, last Friday.

In an Instagram post, MacCallum said she “took her last breaths at home … held by her family and surrounded by love.”

Paul Graham, the president of the Nova Scotia U18 Major Hockey League, ex

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