Everyone Is WRONG About Marco Sturm? ❌ Why The New Bruins Coach Could Be A DISASTER!
I am still not sold on Marco Sturm being the head coach of the Boston Bruins. People have tried, you know, friends of mine, the media covering this, they’ve tried to convince me that Marco Sturm is the guy and I just I’m not seeing it. I was disappointed with the hiring in the first place because A, it took so long and b it feels like an entrylevel job again. Like, why can’t the Bruins get a guy who’s coached at the NHL level at any of any kind before? You know what I mean? I don’t care if he coached for a bad NHL team, coached at the NHL level. Instead, you get Marco Sturm, a minor league coach, after you say you’re going to come in and bring someone in who’s got room to evolve offensively. Marco Sturm’s got plenty of room to evolve offensively. his team was not all that sharp offensively coaching in the AHL in Ontario. If you’re happy about this move or you’re still confused like me, get involved in the comments, like and subscribe. Find us here every weekday because I’m trying to find some reasons here. I really am. I want just one Don Sweeney thing to go well, but then he tells me I’m looking for someone who’s going to evolve offensively. And he brings in Marco Sturm. The one thing people, well, two things that Bruins fans have been trying to sell us on for why Marco Sturm is going to be a good fit for this Bruins team. The first thing is he’s a great communicator. Damn, man. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone involved with the Bruins was a great communicator, I wouldn’t need to do this show. I’d be off on a beach somewhere. I’d be a freaking millionaire every time I heard this coach is a great communicator. That sounds a lot like Jim Montgomery. And I’m sure Monty is a great communicator. That’s fantastic. But when you don’t get to hire your own staff and you don’t get to even have a sniff at deciding who gets to play in Providence and who gets to play in Boston, who’s up on the ninth floor in any given night, then does it really matter if you’re a great communicator? Like, what’s the point of having a great communicator if you’re not the ones making the calls? There was all kinds of other problems with Jim Montgomery, but damned if he wasn’t a great communicator. And you know who wasn’t apparently a great communicator? Bruce Cassidy. All he did was take them to the Stanley Cup final. All he did was win a Stanley Cup his first year somewhere else. So boy am I glad to get a great communicator in here. The other thing we heard about Marco Sturm, the other thing we continue to hear about Marco Sturm as to why he’s a great fit for the Boston Bruins is look at the develop look at the talent he’s developed for the LA Kings. The big selling piece for Marco Sturm being a great fit for the Bruins was he developed this young talent that the Kings had. And look at how that Kings team looks now. We’re crediting Marco Sturve for the development of Quinton Biffield and Brandt Clark. And we should to some degree. He did coach them, right, for a little bit, especially Brent Clark. He played some time in the AHL. But here’s the difference. Brand Clark was the eighth overall pick in the draft. Quinton Biffield was the second overall pick in the draft. If you’re looking at the guys the Bruins have, young guys at the NHL level right now and the guys at the AHL level, their prospects, they don’t have anything close to the talent that these guys had coming in. The only one that’s close is James Hagens and he’s going to play in the NCAA this year. It’s not going to fall under Marcos Tur’s purview at all. They don’t have anybody in that pipeline who had a top 10 overall pick talent. So we’re starting at very different planes for Quinton Biffield and Brandt Clark than we are for Fabian Lysel and Georgie Murculof and Fraser Mitten and Matt Patra. Like we’re not even close to the the floor that those guys started on. We’re about three fours below that. Okay, we need to take an elevator ride to get up to those guys floors. So, when you’re talking to me about developing young talent, that’s true, but we’re talking about two very different levels of young talent here. To use an old NFL example, I used to get this with with Adam Gase. For those of you who follow the NFL, Adam Gase, man, the the mind behind Pton Manning’s years with the Broncos, of course, he can come in and develop our quarterbacks, but he didn’t develop Pton Manning. He developed Trevor Simeon. Now, how does that change your opinion? So, to me, Marco Sturm didn’t develop Quinton Biffield and Brandt Clark as much as he did someone like Andre Lee when it comes to comparing it to the Bruins because he did. He did have a hand in developing Quinton Biffield and Brandt Clark, but those guys come in with way more talent than anything the Bruins have. What the Bruins have is probably a little bit closer to Andre Lee, a winger who played a cup of coffee with the LA Kings this year and does seem to be part of their future plans in a bottom six, bottom three role. He’s a kid from UMass LOL, taken 188th overall in the draft a couple years ago, had a nice little college career, but since then he’s played four seasons with the Ontario rain and a handful of games with the LA Kings. In that time with Ontario playing under Marcos Sturm, he had 44 career points in four seasons. Four seasons in the AHL. He’s 25. Like there’s there’s that kid’s nothing. You know what I mean? He’s not an NHL player. That’s more what we’re looking at with Marco Sturm’s development history in terms of the planes he has to deal with with the Bruins. That make sense? He’s just he’s not getting a Quinton Biffiel or a BL Brandt Clark with the Bruins right now. He’s getting Matthew Potra. He’s getting Fraser Mitten. He’s getting Mason Lorai. Guys with some promise, sure, but top 10 pick, far from it. Far from it. And the other thing I was critical of with with Marco Sturm is what is the play style? Like what is the what is the thing about Marco Sturm? What’s the stat that you circle and you say that’s where we need to get better. Here’s how he’s going to make us better. You know, I I think there’s a couple different ways the Bruins could go because they’re so bad and they’re so devoid of any identity right now. You could have gone four or five different ways and and gotten the fan base excited with Marco Sturm. I don’t I don’t know if there’s any of that. you know, his Ontario Rain team was the eighth best had the eighth best record in the AHL this year, which is good. Fine. Top 10 team in a in a 32 team league. That’s fantastic, right? Except for the fact that he finished the same amount of points as the Providence Bruins, a team with apparently no prospects, no guys that are good enough to come up and play for the 15th worst team in the Eastern Conference, the NHL level. Ontario rain same finish and offensive evolving. Yeah, you need a lot of that. His power play last year for Ontario was 17%. That was ninth in their 10 team division. Not ninth in the league, ninth in their division. The Bruins were somehow even worse at the NHL level. 15.2% 29th. So you bring in a head coach who oversaw a 17% power play last year. In fact, the only good move I think the Bruins have made on this coaching staff was getting Steve Spot in here. I doubt that was Marcos Stern’s call because it’s their Bruins are the only team in the league that doesn’t allow their coach to pick his assistants. They pretty much fired Chris Kelly and then kept them. Brought him back. Bob Asenza, Jay Leech, you all have jobs for life. Supreme Court justices, assistant coach for the Boston Bruins. only the head coach gets asked all the time. It’s it’s only his fault ever. So, I doubt it was his call. Maybe I guess it must have been Don Sweeny’s, which I’ll give him credit for. I think this is a good move. Steve spot for the power play. Been with the Stars the last couple years. Dallas made a couple Western Conference finals with him there and they had the seventh best power play in the whole league this year. So, I’m in on that. Sure, I’m there. Steve Spot, great hire. And hopefully Chris Kelly is there’s hopefully there’s a lock box that has the clipboards in it and Chris Kelly does not have the code. I’ll get to the point where we need to maybe even cut the fingers off of Chris Kelly so he can not get an expo marker and go on the board again for the power play. That’s frightening. And on the flip side, the penalty kill because that’s what I hear about Marco Sturm, defensive-minded coach. Great. I think that’s I think the Bruins can win some games that way this year. I think they still have a strong decor and they should have a bounceback year from their starting goalender. I think that’s a better way for you to win games than than trying to make this an elite offensive team with the talent that you have right now. I’ll agree with that. I’m not going to say you don’t need more offensive talent, but I’ll hear that out in the short term. You got to win games defensively. Marco 10th best penalty kill in the AHL last year. Top 10 barely 83 and a half%. I’ll take that. I’ll take that. Of course, you have to take this with a grain of salt. It’s AHL numbers versus NHL and the talent is vastly different. But I’m just looking at play style. I’m looking to see what Marco Sturm actually brings to this and how the Bruins are actually going to play this year. And the only insight we’ve gotten into that Marco Sturm and that press conference after free agency already just tickling Don Sweeny’s balls. Man, what does Marco Sturm say? What kind of play style does he want? We want to be hard to play against. Yes, baby. Yes. Don Sweeney 101. We want to be hard to play against. Something that is completely subjective. Something that is completely unquantifiable. We just want to be hard to play against. That’s what they said last year when they brought in Max Jones and Nikita Zadora. That’s what they said. We want to be hard to play against. And again, you can’t really quantify it. What does it look like to be hard to play against? In my opinion, and this is subjective, it might not be yours. My opinion, being hard to play against means you win hockey games and teams don’t score on you. But we must not have the same definition. myself and the Boston Bruins because they were anything but hard to play against last year in my humble opinion. Okay, they they couldn’t put the puck in the net. They could fight, but they couldn’t put the puck in the net. They couldn’t stay out of the penalty box. They couldn’t stop a puck to save their life. They had one of the worst goalending tandemss in the entire league last year. But damned if Don Sweeney doesn’t come up there and say, “We need to double down. We need to be tough to play against. We don’t need to score goals. We don’t need to have an effective power play. We don’t need to have NHL above average goalenders. We need to be tough to play against. That’s what we’re doubling down on. That’s what we’re going to again. Like, am I missing something? Is there something that I’m just not getting here? It’s it’s almost like fatigue with Bruid’s fans and Don Sweeney to the point of like we just we just we criticize them for the trades. We criticize them for the draft picks. We criticize them for the free agent signings. We almost don’t even have any capacity anymore to criticize them for this head coaching hire. I think a lot of Bruins fans are sitting there thinking, “Yeah, what’d you expect?” like they they pretty much waited it out to see if they could get Pete Dbor and then a day before Pete Dbor’s on the market, they hired a minor league coach. They went after a guy in Jay Woodraftoft who Anaheim was all too happy to bring in as their assistant coach. And I was critical of Jay Woodraftoft as well, but to me that resume speaks louder than Marcos Sturms. And if you’re going to tell me once again that you like the hire because he’s a great communicator, I need more than that. I’m sorry. I need more than that. I heard that with the last guy. And it was an ugly, ugly exit as the team got progressively worse each of the years he was here. So, I need more than a great communicator. I need more than just ah he’ll get guys to go to the paint. I need like real commentary here. I need real analytics. I need real stats. I need real strategy to get me on board with Marco Sturm. So, what is it that we’re missing? I need to know. If you know what it is, tell me in the comments section below. Get involved in the comment section. Be sure to like the video. Subscribe to the channel. It’s completely free. It helps me keep my job. helps me helps me keep us on the air every day.
The Boston Bruins are excited about new head coach Marco Sturm, but is the optimism misguided? While the media is praising his “player-first” approach and AHL success, we’re diving into the red flags and overlooked concerns that suggest the Bruins’ new hire might be a major mistake.
In this video, we’ll challenge the positive narrative and explore the arguments that Sturm is simply not ready for the NHL’s top job. From his lack of a championship at any level to the damning fact that he wasn’t a “hot candidate” for other teams, we’ll break down the key reasons why this “sentimental” hire could lead to a disastrous retooling period. Is his coaching style too “soft” for the Boston market, and is he the right person to fix a locker room that just saw its culture completely erode?
We’re pulling back the curtain on the potential failures of the Sturm era and asking the tough questions that everyone else seems to be ignoring.
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