Mike Yeo

Mike Yeo
Date of birth	July 31, 1973
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1990-1994	Sudbury Wolves
1994-1999	Houston Eros
1999-2000	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

Mike Yeo (born July 31, 1973 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . Since May 2019 he has been the assistant coach of the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League . He had previously coached the Minnesota Wild (2011-2016) and the St. Louis Blues (2017-2018) as head coach in the NHL .

Career

Mike Yeo began his professional career in 1990 with the Sudbury Wolves in the Ontario Hockey League . Only in his fourth season with the Wolves did the winger under head coach Glenn Merkosky make his breakthrough in the OHL when he scored 66 points in 65 games of the regular season . Yeo, who was never drafted , received a professional contract with the Houston Eros from the International Hockey League for the 1994/95 season . For this he completed 63 encounters in the IHL in his debut season, with the Canadian booked 17 points. In the following three seasons he scored at least ten goals this season, the record of 41 points reached Yeo in the 1997/98 season . The 1998/99 season , his last with the Houston Eros, brought him the Turner Cup . In the final series, he defeated the Orlando Solar Bears with the Eros in seven games. After the striker had spent another season with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League , he ended his playing career.

The Canadian remained loyal to the organization of the penguins and was employed as an assistant coach in Wilkes-Barre from the 2000/01 season . Initially, he was head coach Glenn Patrick's right-hand man for three seasons . Yeo later remained in the same position under Michel Therrien , Rick Kehoe and Joe Mullen . For the 2006/07 season he was promoted by the Pittsburgh Penguins' farm team to their NHL organization and continued to serve as an assistant coach. In the 2008/09 season , Yeo was part of the winning team of the Penguins, which won the Stanley Cup . In the 2010/11 season , the Canadian was the head coach of the Houston Eros, with whom Yeo reached the final series of the Calder Cup . After Todd Richards was released from the Minnesota Wild in April 2011, Yeo was signed two months later as his successor.

As a result, Yeo led the Wild to the playoffs three times in a row from 2013 to 2015 before being sacked in February 2016 after losing eight games in a row and 13 of 14. John Torchetti succeeded him on an interim basis . Yeo left the franchise with an average point rate of 55.9%, making it the most successful trainer in this regard.

A few months later he was Bill Peters' assistant coach with the Canadian senior team at the 2016 World Cup , where he won the gold medal with the team. In June 2016 he was signed by the St. Louis Blues , where Yeo will act as Ken Hitchcock's assistant in the 2016/17 season and then take on the position of head coach. After a disappointing first half of the season, Hitchcock was fired in February 2017, so that Yeo took over the Blues as head coach earlier than expected. He then coached the team until November 2018, when he was relieved of his duties after a poor start to the season with just seven wins from 19 games. His successor was initially his previous assistant, Craig Berube .

In May 2019, Yeo was introduced to the Philadelphia Flyers as the assistant to Alain Vigneault, who was also newly appointed .

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 Turner Cup win with the Houston Eros
• 2009 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins (as assistant coach)
• 2016 gold medal at the world championship (as assistant coach)

NHL coaching statistics

team	season	regular season						Play-offs
		Games	S.	N	OTL	Pts	space	S.	N	result
Minnesota Wild	2011/12	82	35	36	11	81	4. ( Northwest )	-	-	not qualified
Minnesota Wild	2012/13	48	26th	19th	3	55	2. (Northwest)	1	4th	Conference quarterfinals
Minnesota Wild	2013/14	82	43	27	12	98	4. ( Central )	6th	7th	Conference semifinals
Minnesota Wild	2014/15	82	46	28	8th	100	4. (Central)	4th	6th	Conference semifinals
Minnesota Wild	2015/16	55	23	22nd	10	56	dismiss	-	-
St. Louis Blues	2016/17	32	22nd	8th	2	46	3. (Central)	6th	5	Conference semifinals
St. Louis Blues	2017/18	82	44	32	6th	94	5. (Central)	-	-	not qualified
St. Louis Blues	2018/19	19th	7th	9	3	17th	dismiss	-	-
total		482	246	181	55	547	0 division title	17th	22nd	0 Stanley Cups

S = victories; N = defeats; OTL = defeats after overtime or shootout ; Pts = points

Web links

• Mike Yeo at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Yeo Named Wild Head Coach. Minnesota Wild, June 17, 2011, accessed June 21, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Wild fire Yeo, hire Torchetti as replacement. nhl.com, February 13, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Chris Pinkert: Blues Add Yeo, Wilson to Coaching Staff. blues.nhl.com, June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 .