After 3 off-season surgeries, Marchand aims for training camp return to Bruins
Team captain didn't begin training until 'about 2 weeks ago'
Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand is recovering from three surgeries this summer but hopes to be ready for training camp later this month.
Marchand, 36, had procedures on his elbow (torn tendon) and groin and for a sports hernia in his abdominal area.
"I didn't do a whole lot of training until about two weeks ago. So I'm just kind of getting back into it," Marchand said on Tuesday. "The goal is to try to be ready for camp or, if not, very shortly after. But I'm just kind of getting back in the swing of things now."
The veteran winger is entering his 16th season with the Bruins. He recorded 67 points (29 goals, 38 assists) while playing all 82 games in 2023-24, adding three goals and 10 points in 11 playoff games.
The four-time all-star and 2011 Stanley Cup champion ranks fifth in franchise history in goals (401) and points (929), sixth in games (1,029) and seventh in assists (528).
The Bruins are scheduled to begin training camp Sept. 18. Their first pre-season game is Sept. 22 against the New York Rangers.
Blues' Krug out for season
St. Louis Blues defenceman Torey Krug is set to have ankle surgery and expected to miss the 2024-25 season.
President and general manager Doug Armstrong announced the prognosis Tuesday. Krug was diagnosed earlier this summer with pre-arthritic changes in his left ankle, what the Blues called a cumulative result of a bone fracture earlier in his career.
The team said at the time he would attempt to rehab the injury for six to eight weeks before resorting to season-ending surgery. The decision was made for Krug to have the operation after the nonsurgical rehabilitation did not solve the problem.
Now 33, Krug initially injured the ankle in 2018 during a pre-season game while playing for Boston.
Krug, who was with the Bruins when they lost the Stanley Cup final to the Blues in seven games in 2019, signed a seven-year contract worth $45.5 million US with St. Louis in 2020. The Livonia, Mich., native has since put up 151 points in 262 regular-season and playoff games.
