The Boston Bruins have completed their search and Marco Sturm is the franchise's new head coach .

He is the third Bruins head coach that general manager Don Sweeney has hired. Sturm takes over for Joe Sacco, who was named interim head coach last November following the firing of Jim Montgomery.

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Sturm has a lot of NHL experience -- he played in 938 career games -- but this will be his first head coaching gig at this level.

Sturm has previously held the position of head coach of the German men's national hockey team and led them to a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. He also was an assistant head coach for the Los Angeles Kings from 2018 to 2022. He had served as head coach of the Kings' AHL

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