{"id":600055,"date":"2026-04-11T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:56:11","slug":"why-james-hagens-isnt-in-bruins-lineup-vs-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600055\/","title":{"rendered":"Why James Hagens Isn&#8217;t In Bruins Lineup vs. Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> head coach Marco Sturm is playing it extremely safe when it comes to the NHL debut of 19-year-old Boston College forward James Hagens.<\/p>\n<p>Any hopes Bruins fans had of seeing Hagens in the first game since he was signed on Wednesday were snuffed out by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/985thesportshub.com\/2026\/04\/10\/bruins-james-hagens-nhl-debut-lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sturm in an interview<\/a> given after Friday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames will not play tomorrow, and we&#8217;ll take it day by day,&#8221; Sturm said as quoted by Ty Anderson of 98.5 The Sports Hub. \u201cIt\u2019s [his] first time up here. Yesterday was a very exciting day, today was, I think, the first time [where it was like] \u2018OK, this is about hockey.\u2019 And you could see it, even in practice, he just needs time and to get used to our system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins have a monumental game on the horizon against the third-place Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday afternoon. With a win, Boston would clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and come closer to locking up the highest-seeded Wild Card spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sturm expressed that, at the end of the day, it\u2019s about putting Hagens in a position to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the biggest thing: We\u2019re not going to throw that kid in and fail,&#8221; Sturm said. &#8220;I don\u2019t want to do that. He\u2019s on the right track, that\u2019s our next step, and we\u2019ll take it day by day and find the right time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More NHL:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/James Hagens Opens Up On First Practice With Bruins\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Hagens Opens Up On First Practice With Bruins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins head coach Marco Sturm is playing it extremely safe when it comes to the NHL debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-600055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}