SUNRISE, Fla. -- Brad Marchand broke a tie early in the third period for the Florida Panthers, who spoiled Rick Tocchet’s debut as Philadelphia Flyers coach with a 2-1 win at Amerant Bank Arena on Thursday.

Tocchet was hired by Philadelphia on May 14, replacing John Tortorella.

“There were pockets of good stuff,’’ Tocchet said. “There was some good stuff, a good measuring stick. The thing I respect about Florida is they believe in what they do; they dump a lot of pucks, great forechecking team. We have to believe in what we’re doing for 60 minutes. We turned over pucks, stuff like that. We have to clean that up. But for the most part, the effort was there.”

Anton Lundell also scored for the Panthers (2-0-0). Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves.

Florida has allowed a total of 39 shots

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