FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Brad Marchand arrived at his introductory press conference Monday wearing a red pullover with the Florida Panthers logo on his chest, a blue Florida baseball cap pulled low. When someone mentioned he looked a little out of place in the color scheme, Marchand smiled. The red, he said, "brings out my eyes."

Marchand, speaking at the Panthers’ practice facility on Monday, said, "It was very disappointing" not to get an extension done with Boston.

Brad Marchand spoke with the media in Sunrise, Florida on Monday morning for the first time since being traded from the Bruins to the Panthers this past weekend. When asked about his 16-year career in Boston,