The Boston Bruins brought in a fresh -- but familiar -- face to be the team's new head coach, hiring former player Marco Sturm on Thursday . This will be Sturm's first gig as an NHL head coach, as Boston looks to take the franchise in a new direction after a disappointing 2024-25 season.

While Sturm has never been a bench leader at the NHL level, he did have success as a head coach in the AHL and internationally for Germany. He led the German Men's National Team to a silver medal in the 2018 Olympics, and most recently the Ontario Reign (the AHL affiliate of the L.A. Kings) to three straight playoff appearances.

Sturm will be officially introduced by the Bruins next Tuesday, though we already have a pretty good idea of what kind of system and program he'll run in Boston. Bruins radio

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