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Former Wild head coach Mike Yeo mutually parted ways with Vancouver just a few days ago to pursue other coaching opportunities. It has now been reported a few times that Yeo is likely to join Ottawa.
According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, it sounds like Yeo joining the Ottawa Senators as a part of Travis Green’s staff is just a matter of time before it is announced.
“I think Mike Yeo is going to land in Ottawa. That’s the way it sounds,’ Dreger said on TSN’s First Up with Aaron Korolnek and Carlo Colaiacovo.
It was also reported by Ottawa Citizen’s Bruce Garrioch that Yeo interviewed with Ottawa to join Green’s on the coaching staff.
Yeo was in the Wild’s organization from 2010 to 2016. He was the Houston Aeros’ head coach during the 2010-11 season and eventually took over as the Wild’s head coach from 2011-2016.
In his head coaching career, Yeo has a 246-181-45 record. He went 173-132-44 in 349 career games with the Wild across five seasons.
The Minnesota Wild have parted ways with former player-turned-assistant-coach Darby Hendrickson.
“He has done a tremendous amount of good things for our team and the State of Hockey as a player and a coach.
I wish Darby and his family all the best in the future,” said Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin, in a statement.
Hendrickson’s position with the Wild had survived several head coaching swaps as he had been a member of the staff since 2009.
Prior to coaching for the Wild, Hendrickson suited up for the squad over the franchise’s first four years.
It’s been a tumultuous year for the Wild as they fired former coach Dean Evanson mid-season, hired John Hine and missed the playoffs entirely.
Yehovah Kelvin
