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Wolves alumni new head coach of the St. Louis Blues

Mike Yeo played for the pack from 1990-94
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St. Louis Blues head coach Mike Yeo is seen in a recent photo and when he played left wing for the Sudbury Wolves in the mid-1990s. Supplied photos.

Former Sudbury Wolves forward Mike Yeo is the new head coach of the St. Louis Blues.

It's the second head coach job for Yeo, who led the Minnesota Wild for parts of six seasons starting in 2010. Yeo was already an assistant in St. Louis and was scheduled to replace Ken Hitchcock next year.

But with the team struggling, Blues management pulled the plug on Hitchcock on Wednesday and promoted Yeo a few months early. 

Yeo's best season with the Wolves was in 1993-94, when he scored 34 goals and added 32 assists to go along with 53 penalty minutes. He was a teammate of current Wolves VP Andrew Dale in that final season in Sudbury.

He played in the minor leagues until 2000, when he became an assistant coach in the AHL. He entered the NHL as an assistant in 2006 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, before taking over in Minnesota in 2010. His best year was in 2014-2015, when he guided them to a 46-28-8 record before losing in the second round of the playoffs.

Yeo joins Randy Carlyle of the Anaheim Ducks as former Wolves with head coaching jobs in the NHL. Wolves alumni also captain three NHL teams – Nick Foligno in Columbus, Derek MacKenzie in Florida and Mike Fisher in Nashville.


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