{"id":181575,"date":"2025-09-05T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/181575\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:59:17","slug":"germanys-sturm-named-coach-of-nhl-bruins-national-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/181575\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany’s Sturm named coach of NHL Bruins | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco Sturm, a forward who played five of his 14 NHL seasons with the Boston Bruins, was named head coach of the Bruins on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old German will have his first NHL head coaching job. He replaces interim coach Joe Sacco, who took over after Jim Montgomery was fired in November.<\/p>\n

“I’m incredibly honored to be named head coach of the Boston Bruins,” Sturm said. “I’m excited to get to work and do everything I can to help this team succeed.”<\/p>\n

Sturm, who played in Boston from 2005-2010, was a coach for the top development team of the Los Angeles Kings the past three years after serving as a Kings assistant coach from 2018-22. He guided Germany’s national team from 2015-18, a run that included a silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

The Bruins went 33-39 with 10 overtime losses this past season to finish last in the Atlantic Division, ending a run of eight consecutive trips to the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n

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“Our goal was to identify a coach who could uphold our strong defensive foundation while helping us evolve offensively,” said Bruins general manager Don Sweeney. “We were also looking for a communicator and leader, someone who connects with players, develops young talent, and earns the respect of the room.”<\/p>\n

Sturm, a three-time Olympian, scored 242 goals in 938 NHL games over 14 seasons with Boston, san Jose, Washington, Vancouver, Florida and the Kings.<\/p>\n

He becomes the latest NHL coach to be hired looking ahead to next season, joining Boston a day after Pittsburgh hired Dan Muse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Sturm, a forward who played five of his 14 NHL seasons with the Boston Bruins, was named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,6,1352,1358,6164,285,1355,4,4580,1354,1834,1361,43,1362,104,1353,1356],"class_list":{"0":"post-181575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-ice-hockey","14":"tag-ice-hockey-leagues","15":"tag-ice-hockey-teams","16":"tag-marco-sturm","17":"tag-national-hockey-league","18":"tag-national-hockey-league-teams","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-partners-afp","21":"tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","22":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","23":"tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-organizations","26":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","27":"tag-top-level-sports-leagues","28":"tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115150163994034506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}