{"id":6097,"date":"2017-02-01T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:52:16","slug":"st-louis-blues-fire-ken-hitchcock-promote-mike-yeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/02\/01\/st-louis-blues-fire-ken-hitchcock-promote-mike-yeo\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Fire Ken Hitchcock, Promote Mike Yeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> have fired their head coach Ken Hitchcock. Mike Yeo will step in immediately.<\/p>\n<h2>St. Louis Blues fire Ken Hitchcock, Promote Mike Yeo<\/h2>\n<p>Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong announced Wednesday morning that the team will move on without Hitchcock at the helm. Hitchcock has been the head coach of the Blues since November 8th 2011. Over the past six seasons he has compiled a 248-124-41 regular season record.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have dropped five of their last six games, and finish the month of January 5-8. They are currently in the final wild card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>There are only five players on the current Blues roster that remain from the team when Hitchcock was hired in 2011. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pietral01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Pietrangelo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/steenal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Steen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/berglpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrik Berglund<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Perron<\/a> <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reavery01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Reaves<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeo spent the majority of his career as the head coach of the Minnesota Wild. He led the Wild to a 173-132-44 record and three consecutive playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Yeo spent 10 seasons in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization. Four of which were as an assistant coach, where he was a part of the 2009 Stanley Cup winning team.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Yeo led the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League to the Calder Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>Yeo was set\u00a0to take over for Hitchcock at the start of the 2017-18 season after\u00a0Hitchcock retired. His tenure will begin earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/612910216\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/612910216?et=7Tw0mEAiTlRC7EikbVe5kQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=PZJvyODmMvXTKGjbKjlI_jeh1Sv2nwiUSPE2FnDOsCY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have fired head coach Ken Hitchcock. Mike Yeo will take over head coaching duties immediately. The Blues end January at 5-8-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":6106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[37,739,740,38,955,39],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-blues","tag-hockey","tag-ken-hitchcock","tag-mike-yeo","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-st-louis-blues"],"modified_by":"Nicholas Di Giovanni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}