"But if you're looking to furrow the new Bruins coach's brow quickly, bring up his team's penalty kill. It concerned him back in the summer before he ever put whistle to mouth and it concerned just a few days ago as opening night looms. It's no secret why. The B's, once a standard in the PK department, fell to 24th in the NHL. On top of that, they traded away three players who had been stalwarts on the kill"
"Throughout camp, Sturm has been holding open auditions for the PK. "We were short a little bit on killers so there's a few guys - Tanner Jeannot, (Casey) Mittelstadt, those guys, Mikey (Eyssimont) - one of them we need as a killer. We might have to turn him into a killer," said Sturm, who added on Monday that a big reason why John Beecher made the team was because of his PK prowess."
Marco Sturm projects positivity while prioritizing a significant penalty-kill overhaul after the Bruins dropped to 24th in the NHL. The team traded away Brad Marchand, Charlie Coyle and Brandon Carlo, leaving a shortage of experienced killers and increasing the need for a stout PK. Camp features open auditions to identify or convert players into penalty-kill specialists, with Pavel Zacha and Elias Lindholm viewed as natural fits and others like Tanner Jeannot, Casey Mittelstadt, Mikey Eyssimont and John Beecher under evaluation. A strong PK is essential given limited scoring depth beyond David Pastrnak and Morgan Geekie.
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