The St. Louis Blues figured they had a pretty good coaching talent when they made Craig Berube an assistant coach in the NHL instead of trying to keep him in the AHL or letting him go elsewhere. Clearly that decision paid dividends since he replaced Mike Yeo and led his team to a Stanley Cup in the same season.
With everyone watching The Last Dance, an ESPN documentary focusing on the championship days of the Chicago Bulls, it sprang to mind that Berube could very well be the Blues’ version of Phil Jackson. It seems an outlandish claim, but hear me out.