Regarding his time in St. Louis, Armstrong remarked, “I don’t feel today I’ve left it any better than where I found it if I get fired in the next hour or I get hit by a bus in the next hour.” “What a horrible feeling.”
The only Stanley Cup-winning coach in Blues history, Craig Berube, was fired, and the team’s 11-year general manager met with reporters hours later to discuss the decision and provide a rough blueprint for getting out of their current Western Conference mediocrity.
Armstrong stated, “There was not a sense that something would change today if we simply came in and went back to work that would make tomorrow different.” “I’m not sure if things will be different tomorrow. I only know that the head coach has been taken out of the picture so that we can concentrate on other things. We are now approaching the hourglass’s center when you make that adjustment. That describes the players and me.
Drew Bannister, who was the head coach of Springfield, the AHL affiliate, was brought up by the Blues to serve as the team’s temporary head coach. Bannister left for St. Louis on Wednesday, where he will coach his first game against the Senators on Thursday.
Armstrong stated that the Blues are presently seeking to appoint a new head coach and that Bannister is not assured to serve as the team’s temporary head coach for the remainder of the season. Armstrong stated that there is no timeframe for finding a long-term successor.
Armstrong will be in charge of that choice, as well as the others he must make to reassemble a Blues team that has begun the season 13-14-1 and is currently on a four-game losing streak following their 6-4 setback to the Red Wings on Tuesday night.
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