Sam Reinhart and Evan Rodrigues also scored and each had an assist as the Panthers opened defense of their Stanley Cup championship by topping the Boston Bruins.

For Brad Marchand, the past is the past. Last spring, of course, Marchand took a sneaky punch to the jaw from Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett that concussed the Bruins’ captain in the playoffs. With the reverse angle that showed the punch not surfacing until several days later,