Doug Armstrong got his man, finally, but one of the questions the St. Louis Blues general manager was asked on Sunday after hiring Jim Montgomery as the 28th coach in franchise history if he was OK with how things progressed knowing this was the third coach behind a Blues bench in less than a year.

In an unusually candid confession, St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong revealed that the decision to fire Drew Bannister as head coach was driven almost entirely by the availability of Jim Montgomery.