BOSTON -- Mike Sullivan's month as a Boston Bruins assistant coach turned out to be an audition for the top job.

And he passed the test.

"I had a chance to work with Mike for a month or so," Bruins general manager Mike O'Connell said Monday after making Sullivan the team's fifth head coach in less than three years. "It came very easily to him. It was remarkable for such a young coach to have that ability."

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