{"id":41221,"date":"2025-08-02T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:37:07","slug":"3-questions-facing-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41221\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

2. Can Marco Sturm bring back the Bruins way?<\/p>\n

The defense equally struggled.<\/p>\n

Boston allowed 3.30 goals per game, ranking 26th in the NHL. The season prior, its defense was one of the League\u2019s best, giving up an average of 2.70 goals, tied with the Vancouver Canucks for fifth-best.<\/p>\n

Sweeney said the Bruins were too often an \u201ceasy out\u201d last season.<\/p>\n

Enter Sturm, who was hired June 5 to replace interim coach Joe Sacco. A forward for Boston from 2005-10, Sturm said he is well aware of what has made the Bruins stand out and what needs to quickly return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already talked to a bunch of guys, my veterans on the current team right now,\u201d Sturm said, \u201cand I can tell right away they learn from (Patrice) Bergeron, they learn from (Zdeno) Chara, because they already have it in there and that really got me excited, too. And I know we’ve just got to guide them again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Will Jeremy Swayman<\/a> rebound?<\/p>\n

In his fifth season, the 26-year-old goalie was 22-29-7 with a 3.11 goals-against average and .892 save percentage, each his worst in the NHL. He was 2-8-1 in his final 11 starts, allowing at least four goals seven times.<\/p>\n

Swayman missed training camp while negotiating an eight-year, $66 million contract ($8.25 million average annual value) signed Oct. 6. He then played an NHL career-high 58 games, up from 44 games (43 starts) when he was an NHL All-Star with a 2.53 GAA and .916 save percentage in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

The increased workload wasn\u2019t an issue, he said, and would be welcome again this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can play better,\u201d Swayman said on April 17. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I can\u2019t wait to work on. This team is going to be a lot different next year with what we learned from this year. We\u2019ve got a lot to look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Can Marco Sturm bring back the Bruins way? The defense equally struggled. Boston allowed 3.30 goals per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-41221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}