BOSTON -- Marco Sturm found his future in the in-between time, when he was done playing, but had not yet looked beyond. He had come home to his family, in Florida, after his final year of playing in 2012-13, come back to regular dad life, and started coaching his son’s youth hockey team, before moving on to prep school.

Which was when, without expecting it, he hit on his new path.

He was coaching with a pair of former Florida Panthers, Tomas Vokoun and Radek Dvorak , all of them both underqualified and overqualified to lead the team. He remembers what they said.

“These guys are like, ‘Oh wow, you’re a coach,” Sturm recalled in a sitdown with NHL.com last week. “And I felt it too. I just had fun. I don’t know, the way I’m on the ice, off the ice, I don’t know. I think from that poin

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