FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Brad Marchand has nowhere to be.

He is sitting, feet up, curled into a locker in an empty Florida Panthers dressing room FaceTiming with his youngest, Rue, four days before Game 1 of his fourth Stanley Cup Final.

Fourteen years have passed since his first, years in which he has transitioned from brash rookie forward to seasoned veteran, a player constantly on the edge of suspension to a captain in the NHL to a hired gun after 1,000 games with one team.

That 2011 Final seems like a lifetime ago, with Marchand and Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin the only two still playing. But somehow it is also the one that most closely aligns with where he is in his 16th season, entering the final round of the playoffs unencumbered, free of responsibility, stress or expec

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