Lighting the Lamp with Rick Ackerman
Happy New Year 2010, Andy Murray! On January 2 Murray was relieved of his duties as the head coach of the St. Louis Blues and replaced with assistant Davis Payne, who played 22 games (recording one assist and 14 penalty minutes) in the NHL with the Boston bruins as a checking winger. With a home record of 6-13-3 and a young team struggling, team President John Davidson and GM Doug Armstrong made the decision in an attempt to turn the season around. Not at all surprising was that Murray was a finalist for the Jack Adams Award the previous year when the Blues amazed the hockey world by finishing sixth in the Western Conference.