Brad Marchand was asked if he would ever consider returning to the Boston Bruins. His answer was somewhat surprising. Understanding that things didn’t exactly end in Boston the way he would have liked,

Brad Marchand stepped back onto the ice at the TD Garden in a Panthers practice jersey as the longtime Bruins player returned to Boston for the first time since he was traded to Florida.

But instead of donning a black-and-gold Boston Bruins jersey -- or even a fourth-line merlot jersey -- Marchand was wearing a white sweater, emblazoned with “Property of Florida” surrounding a Florida Panthers logo. It was a jarring sight. Even, seemingly, to Marchand.

Brad Marchand may now be with the Florida Panthers, but that does not mean he is completely over what happened to his Bruins in the playoffs the past two years. A few months ago, FHN wrote a piece entitled Did the Florida Panthers Break the Boston Bruins?

Brad Marchand’s hockey afterlife officially began Tuesday morning on Causeway Street, where he returned to the ice for the first time in more than a week, and for the first as an ex-Bruin.

Aleksander Barkov looked across the Florida Panthers' locker room on Saturday morning and noticed a new addition.

Marchand joins list of greats — such as Bobby Orr, Tom Brady and Carlton Fisk — to wear another team's uniform. It won't be easy to watch.

Marchand is week-to-week with an upper-body injury and will not play Tuesday, but he will join his new team for the start of a six-game road trip.

A new week, a new beginning for Brad Marchand. The former Boston Bruins captain was, of course, traded to the Florida Panthers on Friday at the NHL trade deadline on Friday and yesterday he met with the media in Florida for the first time.