Marco Sturm

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Position	Left/Right Wing
Shoots	Left
Nickname(s)	Sturmy
Height Weight	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 194 lb (88 kg/13 st 12 lb)
NHL Team F. teams	Boston Bruins San Jose Sharks
Nationality	Germany
Born	September 8, 1978 (1978-09-08) (age 29), Dingolfing, West Germany
NHL Draft	21st overall, 1996 San Jose Sharks
Pro career	1997 – present

Marco Johann Sturm (born September 8, 1978 in Dingolfing, West Germany; now Germany) is a professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League.

[edit] Playing career

He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks 1st round (21st overall) in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. He was then traded to the Boston Bruins on 30 November 2005 with Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau for Joe Thornton. As of the end of the 2007–08 Boston Bruins season, Sturm is the only player involved in that trade that is still with the team.

A notoriously strong skater, he is often referred to as "the fastest German on ice." His forays into the offensive zone are known as the "blitzkrieg". In the 1999 All-star game, Marco Sturm had the second best time to Peter Bondra in the fastest skater competition.

Sturm was to be the captain of Germany's men's ice hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, but pulled out days before leaving for Italy due to an unspecified upper-body injury.

On February 24, 2007, Sturm agreed to a multi-year contract extension. [1]

As of February 2, 2008 Marco Sturm played in his 730th career NHL pro ice hockey game, more than any other German-born and raised player.

In the listing for the German national team roster for the 2008 IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships, Marco Sturm is one of the selected German-born NHL players to be selected to play for Team Deutschland as of April 26, 2008.[2]

Marco Sturm's most infamous goal may have come in the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round against the Montreal Canadiens. With less than three minutes remaining in regulation of Game 6, Sturm took a wrist shot from the right point on Canadien goaltender, Carrie Price. After saving the initial shot, Price gave up a costly rebound, and Sturm, leaping over a fallen Montreal defender, held the puck and proceeded around the diving Montreal goaltender, and flipped the puck into the top right corner of the net. This resulted in the game-winning goal for the Boston Bruins and sent the underdog Bruins back to Montreal for a game 7.

Marco Sturm is married with two children, son Mason Joseph and daughter Kaydie.

[edit] Career statistics

			Regular Season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1995/96	EV Landshut	DEL	47	12	20	32	50	11	1	3	4	18
1996/97	EV Landshut	DEL	46	16	27	43	40	7	1	4	5	6
1997/98	San Jose Sharks	NHL	74	10	20	30	40	2	0	0	0	0
1998/99	San Jose Sharks	NHL	78	16	22	38	52	6	2	2	4	4
1999/00	San Jose Sharks	NHL	74	12	15	27	22	12	1	3	4	6
2000/01	San Jose Sharks	NHL	81	14	18	32	28	6	0	2	2	0
2001/02	San Jose Sharks	NHL	77	21	20	41	32	12	3	2	5	2
2002/03	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	28	20	48	16	--	--	--	--	--
2003/04	San Jose Sharks	NHL	64	21	20	41	36	--	--	--	--	--
2004/05	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL	45	22	16	38	56	11	3	4	7	12
2005/06	San Jose Sharks	NHL	23	6	10	16	16	--	--	--	--	--
2005/06	Boston Bruins	NHL	51	23	20	43	32	--	--	--	--	--
2006/07	Boston Bruins	NHL	76	27	17	44	46	--	--	--	--	--
2007/08	Boston Bruins	NHL	80	27	29	56	40	7	2	2	4	6
NHL Totals			604	151	165	316	274	38	6	9	15	12

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