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Marchand rehabbing from offseason elbow surgery

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Brad Marchand

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Brad Marchand won’t be playing through an elbow injury in 2015-16 like he was last season, but before he can move past it he needs to complete his rehab process. Fortunately he’s upbeat about his recovery from his offseason surgery.

“It just started feeling better around the start of August,” Marchand told NHL.com. “So it was tough. I couldn’t do a whole lot of upper-body workouts for the first three months off. The last month has been good though. It’s come around and it’s feeling pretty good. But I’m still in the rehab process. So I’m trying to get my strength back up.”

He believes he’ll complete that process in time for the start of training camp.

This recovery has impacted his summer workout schedule as he was confined to a cast for six weeks and then spent an additional three or four weeks in a splint. Over that stretch he wasn’t able to engage in any weight training.

The trade off though is that, ideally, he’ll be pain free this season, which is in stark contrast to the 2014-15 campaign. There were times last season where he wasn’t able to hold a stick and the injury impacted his ability to shoot the puck. He was originally hurt during the 2014 playoffs so while there were days that were better than others, it meant that he spent the whole campaign playing injured.

Despite that, Marchand participated in 77 contests, chipping in 24 goals and 42 points. Excluding his 20-game stint in 2009-10 though, his 13.3 shooting percentage last season was the worst of his career.

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