{"id":281124,"date":"2025-11-09T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:06:13","slug":"marco-sturm-sends-clear-message-to-bruins-mason-lohrei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281124\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Sturm Sends Clear Message To Bruins&#8217; Mason Lohrei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei will be playing his first game since Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Lohrei has been a healthy scratch for the past five games, but he will return to the lineup on Saturday when the Bruins go on the road to play the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Bruins star defenseman Charlie McAvoy will be out of the lineup as he didn\u2019t travel with the team due to personal reasons. In McAvoy\u2019s absence, Lohrei will draw back into the lineup, and Bruins head coach Marco Sturm sent a clear message to the defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is his opportunity now to come in. It took a little bit longer than expected, but for him \u2013 he knows \u2013 I just want him to defend well and play simple,\u201d Sturm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/video\/press-room-marco-sturm-6384840447112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> pregame on Saturday about Lohrei. \u201cThat is all he has to worry about. You have to remember, he is still very young. He is kind of processing the whole thing as well. For us and for me as a coach, got to help him and got to guide him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lohrei has one goal and five assists for 6 points in 11 games this season. He\u2019ll be on the third pairing alongside Jonathan Aspirot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Although the Bruins will be without McAvoy and forward Casey Mittelstadt, Sturm still has confidence in his team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be a challenging night for us, especially with a few guys out,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cBut I am very confident, the way we play right now, that we can hang in there. It is definitely going to be a big one, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei will be playing his first game since Oct. 27. Lohrei has been a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[120926,140067,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-281124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-marco-sturm","9":"tag-mason-lohrei","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281124","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=281124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}