SUNRISE, Fla. – The hockey gods know how to write a script.

Missing the last game after a close friend lost his daughter, Selah, to cancer, Brad Marchand opened the scoring and then later netted winning goal in the shootout to lift the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 win over the Dallas Stars at Amerant Bank Arena on Saturday.

“If anything, this week has taught me there’s so many incredible moments in life you just have to enjoy and not take too seriously and just kind of be in the moment,” Marchand said. “I wasn’t nervous or anything out there. It was more a great opportunity to honor Selah.”

Improving to 6-5-1, the Panthers finish their four-game homestand at 2-1-1.

Over those four games, they surrendered just four goals at 5-on-5.

“The things that we’re trying to get better at, we got m

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