Florida Panthers veteran Brad Marchand is stepping away from the team just 11 games into the season to help a friend whose daughter died of cancer. Marchand, 37, took a leave of absence from the team to return to his home of Halifax, Nova Scotia and step in as a coach for his friend JP MacCallum, whose daughter, Selah, died at age 10 last Friday, October 24, after a year-long battle with cancer.