Blues GM Doug Armstrong appears to be grooming former Minnesota Wild Head Coach Mike Yeo to take Hitchcock's place behind the St.Louis bench after next season. Yeo certainly understands the type of suffocating defensive structure it takes to win in the thunderdome division, but is Mike Yeo a good long-term option for the Blues? It's tough to say, and it's even tougher to ignore how poorly the Wild performed before he was fired.
Hitchcock should have been fired after the soul crushing series loss against Minnesota in the first round, but Oshie was chosen as the sacrificial lamb while Armstrong found himself in the middle of a male-mid-life-crisis version of Twilight, trying to choose between Mike Babcock and Ken Hitchcock.