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St. Louis Blues cut head coach, and North Bay native, Mike Yeo

Yeo is third NHL coach to be fired this season
Mike Yeo headshot
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North Bay’s Mike Yeo is out as head coach of the St. Louis Blues.   

Amid a disappointing showing that fell well short of Stanley Cup expectations, the St. Louis Blues fired coach Mike Yeo a quarter of the way into the season and named Craig Berube as his interim replacement.

The Blues general manager Doug Armstrong  made the move after Monday’s 4-0 loss at the hands of the struggling Los Angeles Kings.   

Something had to give for the Blues after they failed to make the playoffs last season, falling one point short when they lost to Colorado in their 82nd game. They lost in the second round under Yeo in 2017, after he was a midseason replacement for fired coach Ken Hitchcock. 

After no coaches were fired last season, the 45-year-old Yeo is the third NHL coach to lose his job this month, following the Kings' John Stevens and the Blackhawks' Joel Quenneville. Yeo went 73-49-11 in parts of three seasons with the Blues, with one playoff series victory. 

Berube had been an associate coach on Yeo's staff since the summer of 2017. Before that, he was coach of the Blues' AHL affiliate and has NHL head-coaching experience from parts of two seasons with Philadelphia.

Yeo joined the Blues as an assistant in 2016 after five seasons with Minnesota. The Wild made the playoffs in three of Yeo's four full seasons, and he was fired 55 games into 2015-16.

The Blues came into the season with championship aspirations after acquiring centre Ryan O'Reilly in a trade from Buffalo and signing forwards Tyler Bozak, Patrick Maroon and David Perron.

Yeo was considered to be on the hot seat, and two consecutive losses led to his dismissal.

Following the late-night announcement, the team called a news conference for Tuesday morning with Armstrong and Berube.

Yeo won a Stanley Cup as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 and also led Team Canada to a World Championship gold medal as head coach of the national team back in the spring of 2016.  

 Files courtesy Canadian Press

 

 

 


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