After an unusual season in 2017-18 where no NHL head coaches had been fired, Todd McLellan has now become the fourth coach during the 2018-19 season to be dismissed. McLellan and the Oilers have strugged mightily since their breakout 2016-17…
While the entire NHL fan base and half the teams in the league focus on the Stanley Cup playoffs, teams elsewhere have quickly started to prepare for the future. The Dallas Stars changed their coach after failing to make the playoffs,…
Today St. Louis Blues and coach Ken Hitchcock announced a one-year extension to his contract. Hitchcock later confirmed in a press conference that 2016-17 will be his final year and plans to retire from coaching once it’s over. The Blues advanced…
After a slow start last season, opening the first month of play with a losing record, the St. Louis Blues fired then head coach Davis Payne and replaced him with Ken Hitchcock. This would be the best move the Blues…
The Jack Adams Award recognizes proficiency in coaching as exemplified by “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success.” The finalists for the Jack Adams Award include Ken Hitchcock, St. Louis Blues; Paul MacLean, Ottawa…
All you have to do is make the playoffs. After that, anything can happen. Call it a Cinderalla story, call them longshots, call them what you will – but the fact is, the Los Angeles Kings are living proof that…
The three finalists for NHL Coach of the Year have been announced. Each of the three deserve to be a finalist. Paul MacLean, John Tortorella, and Ken Hitchcock have led massive turnarounds of their franchises. MacLean took a team that finished…
David Perron of the St. Louis Blues sports his new White Reebok 20k Skates against the New Jersey Devils. Perron scored a goal in the second period that helped the Blues win in a 4-3 shootout victory. Must be the…
Dallas Stars’ Kari Lehtonen gets deked and scored on by St. Louis Blues’ forward T.J. Oshie. Oshie’s goal midway through the third period put the Blues up in an eventual 1 – 0 victory. The victory has put the Blues…
The St. Louis Blues juggled pieces of their lineup in the offseason in an attempt to get the right pieces in place and get back into the playoff picture. However, after a slow start this season where the Blues have…