In his first season as head coach of the Boston Bruins, Marco Sturm has not been afraid to send a message. Unlike previous coaches ahead of him in Boston, Bruce Cassidy and Jim Montgomery, who did it through the media a lot of times, Strum has taken a different approach.
Sturm has not been afraid to make players a healthy scratch this season. When he has done it, he has got the results he's been looking for. First, it was Marat Khusnutdinov and then Casey Mittlestadt. The latest was first-year forward Mike Eyssimont. On the recent three-game road trip, Sturm scratched him against the St.