NHL insider Elliotte Friedman says Brad Marchand was stunned the Boston Bruins didn't re-sign him and instead traded him.

The Boston Bruins have traded captain Brad Marchand, sending the forward to the Florida Panthers as the final buzzer sounded on the NHL trade deadline Friday afternoon.

ESPN's Emily Kaplan reports that the Bruins and Brad Marchand continued to negotiate an extension until at least last month.

Katrina Marchand shared an emotional farewell message on Instagram following her husband and former Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand’s shocking trade from the Boston Bruins to the Florida Panthers. Marchand, who had spent all 16 of his NHL seasons with the Bruins, was moved at the deadline after he and the team failed to agree on a new contract.

It’s hard to say that the big news last Friday on the trade deadline was not Mikko Rantanen heading to Dallas. On the other hand, we were expecting him to be traded by the Hurricanes.

Charlie McAvoy didn’t need words to express how he felt about Brad Marchand’s departure from the Boston Bruins. On Friday, hours after the Bruins sent their longtime captain to the Florida Panthers in a trade deadline stunner, McAvoy took to Instagram to react publicly for the first time.

Aleksander Barkov looked across the Florida Panthers’ locker room on Saturday morning and noticed a new addition.

Brad Marchand wanted to compromise with the Boston Bruins but a deal just couldn't get done, resulting in the team's best player being sent to a division rival.

Brad Marchand wanted to stay with the Boston Bruins. The Boston Bruins wanted to keep Brad Marchand. And yet, here we are, and the once heart and soul of the Bruins, the captain, the last remaining member of the 2011 Stanley Cup championship team,

The Boston Bruins sent captain Brad Marchand to the Florida Panthers at the NHL trade deadline as part of a purge of the roster that has followed unprecedented regular-season success with playoff disappointment.