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It’s not just the Boston Bruins family that reunites with Marco Sturm as the 29th or 31st head coach in franchise history – 29th if you don’t count the interim coaches, 31st if you do (more on that below) – the former Bruins winger acquired from San Jose with defenseman Brad Stuart and center WayneContinue reading “Sturm Back with Bruins, Family”

So this is how Marco Sturm’s legacy as a Boston Bruin finally finds a proper place under the spotlight: via the meat grinder of the National Hockey League coaching life. The road to the Stanley Cup is bumpy and difficult, and often times a player of great influence is left behind upon the precipice ofContinue reading “Bruins bank on Sturm return”

Neither the 2025 National Hockey League Entry Draft nor this year’s free-agency class is expected to yield a game changer for the Boston Bruins, but during this morning’s postseason press conference at Legends restaurant inside TD Garden, General Manager Don Sweeney indicated that the Bruins won’t hold back from spending on free agents in orderContinue reading “Bruins hope coach is in place for UFA”

Assuming the shirts come off the Boston Bruins’ backs on the final night of the season against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, April 15, at TD Garden, an annual postgame ceremony will be bittersweet for 20-something lucky fans in attendance. It’s always more fun for the fans and the players when this ritual isContinue reading “Zacha, Geekie offer Mittelstadt a model of better days ahead”

The last laughs I remember from members of the Boston Bruins during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs were those of two players who were not playing: Back-up goaltender Tim Thomas and a member of the Black Aces named Brad Marchand. Brad Marchand modeled the Bruins’ centennial season heritage sweater before the 2023-24 season at LoganContinue reading “Marchand era ends in Boston”

If the schedule makers have been inadvertently kind to the Boston Bruins while scheduling a road-heavy month of March for the second straight season, it’s in the fact that the 4 Nations Face-off that interrupted the NHL season two weeks ago also interrupted a 6-1 streak that the Anaheim Ducks were on when the musicContinue reading “Must-win: Ducks at Bruins”

Imagine you’re a fan of the Edmonton Oilers, who took Game 7 for the Stanley Cup down the final seconds last year, and during a midseason, international competition, Connor McDavid sustains a serious injury, compromising his ability to help the Oilers get over the top for the first time in 35 years. The Boston BruinsContinue reading “McAvoy injury a case against 4 Nations”

First off, nice to see Bruce Cassidy and then Dave Goucher downstairs before today’s matinee at TD Garden between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Boston Bruins. This is the final game for Boston before the two-week break for the 4 Nations Face-Off that will be played next week in Montreal and the following MondayContinue reading “VGK at Bruins: 4 Nations Break”

Youth hockey in the United States was not in a good place as the 20th Century expired, as a record number of children were quitting on the sport by age 10. They weren’t having fun. Long car rides just to be a member of some select team playing tournament games in far-away places, only toContinue reading “Jacobs on board with USA Hockey”

Bill Guerin’s Minnesota Wild is in TD Garden tonight to battle the Bruins without its superstar forward Kirill Kaprizov, who will be out of the Minny lineup for a substantial absence to recover from a necessary surgery. Marc-Andre Fleury gets the start. The veteran netminder making his farewell tour of NHL cities was the subjectContinue reading “Wild at Bruins”