It feels like most, if not all decisions, that first-year Boston Bruins coach Marco Sturm is making this year turn up gold. When he benches a player (or calls them a healthy scratch), that player responds when they return to the lineup.
When the Bruins hosted the Vancouver Canucks at the TD Garden on Saturday night, Sturm made two curious decisions. In fact, two decisions were surprising. When the dust settled, they were decisions that, well, backfired in what was a 5-4 shootout loss to a team that has struggled all year long, playing some good as of late, but still a game where anything less than two points at the end was a failure.