St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong meets with the media to discuss relieving Craig Berube of his duties as head coach and hiring Drew Bannister as interim head coach. The press conference will begin at approximately 10:30 a.m.
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Dude should be the one going, not chief
I'd ask Alexander Steen to coach.
Insightful. He FEELS responsible but that is vastly different than TAKING responsibility. What a coward to refuse to TAKE responsibility for his own repeatedly bad decisions and trades and step down. He only basks in feeling responsbile but instead makes Coach Berube fall on the sword for a team that has shown little to no heart, chemistry, or consistency this season. He admits that they are not a successful franchise and that the organization is no better than where he found it. Is that a coach's fault or, by his own admission, a GM problem. One can only hope that Mr. Stillman cares more about his fan base / customers and less about his affiliation with Army. How many coaches need to be fired until he realizes that just quite maybe Army has outlived his usefulness. If the organization is no better now than when he joined, by his own admission, why is he still in the job? Mr. Stillman – please show us you really do care. This current team Army has built is not a cup contender but it's going to take a change in management to get the results we all desire.
"That's just the way the salary cap works." And whose fault is it for offering contracts that are overly inflated to underperforming players (and with no-trade clauses)? That would be Army's fault. He cannot retain true talent because he has locked himself into contracts where he is overpaying underperforming players. Instead of firing Berube, he should have fired Steve NOTT since he is the coach over the powerplay, the worst in the league!
love to see brian sutter brought back or the q
Classic piss poor management throwing out coaches. How much longer we gonna allow this.
Too many key players not replaced. Weak def. Sounds like they are trying to catch 2028 fire like when Yeo got canned.
This Dbag should be fired not the coach that brought us out only CUP not this chode that has no clue how put a team together and hold it, GET A NEW GM BRING BACK OUR COACH!!!
Can Armstrong find his replacement also??? This is his roster he is responsible for this as he said . Time to go
I do agree they haven’t been worth the fans time or money to watch
Armstrong needs to go. He's the one that gave us these crap pieces Chief was working with.
Fire Armstrong!
Doug Armstrong has made good moves in the past but after the cup run he just made bad after bad mistake he gave huge contracts to players that aren’t gonna pan out schen krug binnington
As if Doug Armstrong was going to fire himself. He hired Craig Berube and the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup in 2019. That bought him leeway he would otherwise not have had. There are two ways this can go:
1). The St. Louis Blues turn things around and qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Armstrong removes the interim tag from Bannister and makes him the head coach.
2). Things don't improve and the St. Louis Blues fail to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Armstrong is fired as GM and the rebuild starts.
D.J. Smith is the next coach to receive a pink slip in my opinion.
Kyrou…. 5g 12a -8
Thomas 10g 17a +7
Both have the same contract ????
You Armstrong bashers better be careful. There is a reason he ie always up for the GM for all these Olympics, Team Canada. You could have someone like Mozeliak……. At least Armstrong makes changes and doesn’t lie to the team or fans. He doesn’t wait around. You have to appreciate that.
This is why he's the BEST GM in Blueballers history! He hired a coach to win our only SC, then has the kahonas to realize, hey, he's seeing a consistent downward trend of poor play (including last year) by those who aren't 'buying in' to the coach that he had to fire! CB, to me, spent too much time belching and farting while answering questions after lackluster play of players who figured if he didn't care, why should they? Wish CB the best and thanks!
Davidson is trash and he has decimated this team while keeping all the fat. Please quit your job sir you are a disgrace
Davidson has the complexion of a rabid alcoholic
So the coach wasn’t the problem but I fired him anyway because the poor roster that I (Armstrong) put together is weak minded and lacks the ability to be ready to play a full 60 every game. He’s completely delusional.
Don‘t like the dismiss of Chief. A GM who has Hayes as the major aquisition of the summer, no real Defensmen and let the guys like Barby leave, should think about himself…
It was a decision that had to be made … cheif gets it … and the fans should get it
"I built this sh*tshow and Craig didnt fix it for me, so i fired him." Fire Armstrong
Speechless
Now Kyrou can just skate around and just shoot and not play defense…this is going to be fun. thanks Armstrong on destroying this team like you did in Dallas.
Should have fired Army and sent the whole team down to Springfield for a game to shake them up
This blew me away I had no idea this was coming. This is about 90% a salary cap problem.
The problem is Doug Armstrong this team is in shambles bc of so many bad contracts the team Army has put together is not good that’s on him not Berube
Doug you are the only person who should have been fired. If you feel personally responsible you don't go firing your only cup winning coach. You've dismantled the cup team completely. This is 100% on you.
Blues will be good in 2026-27
Wow “TK is one of the hardest workers on the ice” what a joke of a comment … DA steps all over his own words through out this entire pc !
How about we fire Doug armstrong, too
Please, PLEASE, dump the Kyrou contract! One of the worst in STL sports history…it's up there with Dexter Fowler, Mike Leake, Sam Bradford, etc.
Trade the prima-Donna Kyrou. Useless.
He needs to look in the mirror. When you sign basically untested players (thomas, kyrou) to big contracts, and fail to deal nearly worthless #55 to someone else, you need to go.
The problem is Armstrong giving these no trade clause to four horrible defenseman. The problem is he should have ponied up for Petro, and signed some lower paid defenseman to play with him. Instead we have four defenseman making 6 million each, no trade clauses and stuck in the mud. You can trade them, you can bring in new guys because your dead to the salary cap. Thanks Brad!
You put this team together, Dougie. It's ALL YOUR FAULT!
#firearmstrong
This was NOT a good decision to let Berube go.
armstrong put together a POS team and Berube pays the price
YOU are the problem. YOU need to go. YOU created this problem
Armstrong is the best GM the Blues have ever had in franchise history. All you fair weather fans are incredibly annoying and emotionally unstable.
Majority of you demanding Armstrong to be fired are fair weather fans that jumped on the wagon in 2019. Objectively the best GM in Blues history. There is a reason he is selected as GM for team Canada, whether it be the World Cup or Olympics. Armstrong literally won gold over the summer for Team Canada. He’s a winning GM and you will all be sorry when he finally steps away.
It was obvious Berube was losing the room.
You're full of it
I lost a lot of faith in Army after Chief’s firing. He “feels” this is his fault the way the team is playing? No, it IS his fault! NTCs and overpaid players that can’t be moved is on him. He should’ve got the axe.
So when do you fire yourself for building this dumpster fire, Doug? Hey Doug, bad contracts you negotiated will dictate a lot of things. Hey Doug, since you feel personally responsible, what will you do when this club continues to flounder? You signed the players, hired and fired the coach.
@15:32 but Army, YOU'RE responsible for the roster of those 3 games! Were different line combos gonna make the difference? Was the message in the room, Kyrou, allow yourself to be hustled along the half boards when we're playing 6 on 5? Army made the comment earlier in the presser, but i would NOT want to be a bus driver in this town for quite some time. If you liked the message to the room but didn't like the effort on the ice then why remove the guy delivering the message?! You failed at moving Krug, gave bonuses to Thomas and Kyrou and had to waive Vrana all while liking the message Berube was giving but not seeing the effort the players were making. Army, you're next!
If the score is winning and you beat the team, it doesn’t matter what happens as a team you still won the game and thats literally how you win. The score
Fire Doug Armstrong!!!