While we at Bleedin’ Blue have been shooting each other emails and texts left and right, dreaming of the day when Mike Babcock came to St. Louis, we all knew it was a long shot. The St. Louis Blues might have the talent necessary for Babcock’s win-now attitude, but his relationship with his Team Canada assistant coach, the Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock, made it unlikely that he would supplant his friend and colleague.
According to TSN reporter Darren Dreger, the Blues were out of the running two days ago for Babcock, which means hyperventilating in a parking lot yesterday was all for naught.