Kammala wannan jumla: Sturm ya zama dan wasa mai kyauta ba tare da izini ba a lokacin kakar wasa, kuma Vancouver Canucks ya nuna sha'awar sanya hannu a kansa. Ya yi shawarwari tare da ɗan ƙasa Christian Ehrhoff, wanda ya buga kariya tare da Vancouver na tsawon shekaru biyu kafin ya sanya hannu tare da Buffalo Sabres a wannan bazarar. Ehrhoff ya ba da shawarar ƙungiyar kuma Sturm ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar shekara guda, dala miliyan 2.25 a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 2011. Canucks sun kasance 'yan wasan karshe na Stanley Cup a kakar da ta gabata kuma Sturm daga baya ya bayyana cewa ya yi imanin Vancouver shine "mafi kyawun damarsa" don lashe gasar. Babban manajan Mike Gillis ya yarda da hadarin da ke tattare da sanya hannu kan Sturm, saboda aikin tiyata na gwiwa biyu a cikin shekaru uku da suka gabata. Farawa a kakar wasa ta biyu, Sturm ya yi gwagwarmaya tare da sabon tawagarsa. Kasa da wata guda a cikin kakar wasa, a ranar 22 ga Oktoba, 2011, an canza shi zuwa Florida Panthers, tare da dan wasan gaba na gaba Mikael Samuelsson don gaba David Booth da Steven Reinprecht, da kuma zagaye na uku a cikin
Tsarin shekarar 2013.