#marco-sturm

#marco-sturm

"It's not going to be a day-to-day thing," Sturm said of Lindholm's status. "Hopefully it's not too long, but he's definitely going to be out for a little bit. We'll have to do more testing when we're back in Boston so we can go from there."

Mittelstadt had been on the shelf with a knee injury since November 6 and didn't even make the just-completed tip to to the West Coast and Long Island. But with both David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha out with unspecified maladies, desperate times called for a desperate measure. And so, without the benefit of a team practice (something that is usually imperative for a player out that long), Mittelstadt was pressed back into action.

"The Joe Thornton trade, I mean, it was not my fault, right?" Sturm joked at his introductory press conference as Bruins head coach on Tuesday morning.