Panthers pay tribute Brad Marchand's 1,000th point with ceremony

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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Brad Marchand's first NHL point came just 26 seconds into the second period of his first game with the Boston Bruins. It seemed very easy, so easy that he was certain he'd be all over the scoresheets on a regular basis.

Nearly a full year passed before his second NHL point.

"After the first, I'm like, 'Oh, this, it's not too hard,'" Marchand said. "But I had a pretty rude awakening after that. You just see how hard it is every night to play in this league."

He has never forgotten the lessons that came after that first point, what it was like to go scoreless in 21 consecutive games, how it felt to get sent down from Boston to the…