{"id":263008,"date":"2025-10-31T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263008\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:29:07","slug":"marco-sturm-explains-why-bruins-joonas-korpisalo-started-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263008\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Sturm Explains Why Bruins&#8217; Joonas Korpisalo Started Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins decided to start goalie Joonas Korpisalo for the second straight game, which was a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s starting goalie is Jeremy Swayman, but head coach Marco Sturm opted to turn to Koprisalo again. Sturm\u2019s bold choice ended up paying off as Boston defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the game, Sturm explained why he decided to give Korpisalo another start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy for these guys, especially (Marat Khusnutdinov and Korpisalo),\u201d Sturm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/video\/press-room-marco-sturm-6384323794112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, as seen on NESN\u2019s postgame coverage. \u201c\u2018Korpi\u2019 earned the start, and that\u2019s why we went back to him, and he showed it again today, very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korpisalo made 37 saves in the win, but he credited his teammates for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Although Korpisalo was stellar in the net, he praised his teammates for playing well in front of him and allowing him to see all the shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel pretty good,\u201d Korpisalo said. \u201cGuys in front of me are playing really well, and most of the shots are coming from the outside and not in front of the net, and they\u2019re letting me see the puck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korpisalo improved to 3-3-0 with a 3.49 GAA and a .882 SV% with the win on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was good,\u201d Korpisalo said of his performance. \u201cJust try to stick with it and do my best out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston will return to the ice on Saturday at home against the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins decided to start goalie Joonas Korpisalo for the second straight game, which was a bit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[84817,141673,120926,385,99],"class_list":["post-263008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-joonas-koprisalo","tag-marco-sturm","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}