Jim Montgomery: Secondly, I wanted to hire someone with an offensive mindset, someone that had ideally played in the league and spent time honing his craft as an assistant coach. When you get a guy like Vinny Prospal, who has played 1,100 games, goes and spends two years in the Czech Republic coaching, then having gone to the American League, working as an assistant coach developing young players - I know I have two assistant coaches that have a great passion for the game. This is what they are meant to do - and I’m excited for our players." #stlblues

Jim Montgomery: "The No. 1 thing I wanted was to have a guy on my staff that had experience as a head coach at the NHL level, ideally having been part of a team that had a lot of talented young players - a guy that had a defensive mindset - and I was able to find that guy. It's Greg Cronin." #stlblues