Close your eyes. Feel that biting chill. Listen to the crunch of blades carving lines in the sacred, frozen stretch of ice. We're deep in the heart of Hockey Country, where bone-rattling checks and triumphant goal sirens echo, where the hallowed names - Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux - hang in the frosty air. Fans elsewhere watch from their couches as they scream at TVs, but here, in Edmonton, it's passion, nerves, and scantily-protected bodies that crash against the trusty boards.
Just like these pucks colliding with the Plexiglass, another blow has fallen in Hockeyland. Let me tell you the tale of Craig Berube, the conductor of the St. Louis Blues orchestra in their majestic symphony of a 2019 Stanley Cup win. Alas, on Tuesday, his baton fell, and he joined the not-so-enviable club, the third NHL coach to be given the marching orders this season.
