There are endless connections between the teams, and Yeo is at the center of almost all of them, even if he's trying to put the focus elsewhere ahead of the Blues' first-round Western Conference playoff series vs. the Wild that starts Wednesday at the Xcel Energy Center. "We're going to try our best not to think about that and to focus on just winning". "There's very few players that I've coached that I haven't seen and felt a sense of pride or hopefully that you helped them in the tiniest way get to where they were". They also tied their franchise-best record of 50 road points, finishing the season with a 22-13-6 road record. Sure, he would like to coach the Blues past the team that jilted him. "When we're going well, we're a tough team to beat".
For the second time in three years, the St. Louis Blues will play the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs.
"Through all that I think we maintained our confidence in him knowing what he's done in the past and the way he's capable of playing", defenseman Jay Bouwmeester said.
Boudreau noted that training camp steps things up for players who have been working out at a different pace over the summer, and the regular season delivers a second big step up.
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Here's a look at the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs through the 16 degrees of Bruce Boudreau. That came in 2014-15 with the Ducks, who reached the Western Conference finals. With four each with Washington and Anaheim, this is the only time the 62-year-old Boudreau has entered the postseason without a division title. Before that, Yeo spent parts of five seasons coaching the Wild. He's confident enough in himself and his status to quickly make a joke at his own expense.
The underlying story may be that Yeo knows the ins and outs of numerous Wild players he coached, who are still on the roster. "You would believe with those records that he has and the championships that he has in the regular season that they should translate into Stanley Cups, and that's not always the way it is".
"It gets ramped up more than one and a-half times what the regular season was", he explained. Thus, it's an unavoidable topic in the story of his winding career that has encompassed employment with a whopping 25 professional hockey teams, from Adirondack to MS to San Francisco.
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