“It was tough, because we had such high hopes coming into the year,” said Marchand. “We know we’re an incredibly deep team, and we’re a contending team. We knew that we belonged at the top of the league to compete for the playoffs and a Cup, and day one at camp, a huge piece of our team went down. And then summer, Chucky (Matthew Tkachuk) and Nosey (Tomas Nosek) had big surgeries, and it just kind of slowly started to get harder and harder. The team wanted to fight so hard to give those guys an opportunity to come back and to play and compete for another Cup.”
