Bruins Hire Sturm As Next Head Coach | 'The Skate Podcast'

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🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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From 'The Skate Podcast' (subscribe here): Discussing the Bruins' decision to hire Marco Sturm as their next head coach, his coaching background and which players may benefit most from the coaching change. Plus, what the hiring means for the Bruins' style of play, offseason targets and leadership group. And, has Sam Bennett played himself out of the Bruins' price range? Follow us on Twitter: @TheSkatePod | @smclaughlin9 | @briandefelice_ | @bridgetteproulx | Email us at skatepod@weei.com Jump to: 00:00 - What will Bruins' style of play look like under Sturm? 27:00 - Which young players will thrive under Sturm? 45:00 - Will Sam Bennett's price tag be too high for Bruins after an impactful playoffs? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the skate podcast talking Bruins hockey with W.E.I. Bruins writers Scott McLaughlin,
0:08.9	Bridget Prue, and Brian D. Felice. Lace him up for some Bees Talk. It's Odyssey's The SkatePod on
0:15.4	WEEI. Welcome into episode 447 of the skate pod.
0:22.3	I'm Bridget Perughey with Scott McLaughlin.
0:24.2	Brian could not join us this morning.
0:26.5	We had planned to record now, but also some impromptu news coming out.
0:32.5	Scott, we finally timed it correctly.
0:35.1	We were planning to record this morning and we were thinking,
0:38.4	you know, if the Bruins dropped some head coaching news about 9 a.m, we should be able to record
0:43.3	at, you know, 10, 11 and be good to go to talk about it and guess what? It finally happened.
0:49.0	I think we did break the curse. I still think you're tempting fate and something's going to happen at some point i i think
0:56.6	you need to stop um but yeah in this case in this case we uh did not have coaching news break right after
1:05.1	recording or anything like that um yeah marco sturm is the brins new head coach, uh, announced Thursday morning,
1:13.5	shortly after 9 a.m. Bruins like, uh, every team does put up a little teaser like a little
1:19.4	before 9 a.m. where they're changing out the name played on the, um, the door to the head coach's office.
1:27.3	And then we get the official announcement you know
1:29.5	this was what was expected but you know because obviously news of stern potentially being the
1:37.3	higher started to break we started to get reports rumors of that last week and then you do when it
1:43.1	kind of drags on and all of a sudden it's like day after day
1:46.1	you're not getting anything, you do wonder, hey, are they waiting to see what happens in
1:51.3	Dallas?
1:51.9	Because there's still rumors out of there that, you know, Pete DeBore might not be on steady
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