{"id":482817,"date":"2024-05-07T13:48:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482817"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:36:17","slug":"st-louis-confirm-drew-bannister-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/st-louis-confirm-drew-bannister-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis confirm Drew Bannister as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues made a significant move on Tuesday by removing the interim tag from coach Drew Bannister and securing his services with a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister, 50, stepped into the head coaching role on Dec. 14 following the departure of Craig Berube, who was relieved of his duties after a slow start to the season with a 13-14-1 record. Under Bannister&#8217;s guidance, the Blues rallied to a 30-19-5 record, displaying notable improvement, although they narrowly missed out on the playoffs for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Drew Bannister has signed a two-year extension to remain as the Blues Head Coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DETAILS \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FIQlLjxyAX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/FIQlLjxyAX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FIQlLjxyAX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/FIQlLjxyAX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1787845700832616789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During Bannister&#8217;s tenure from his appointment until the season&#8217;s end, the Blues showed great form, accumulating the 12th-most points (65) and boasting the 10th-best home record (18-9-2) in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his stint as interim coach, Bannister built a strong coaching resume in the American Hockey League (AHL). He achieved a 93-58-19 record over three seasons with the Springfield Thunderbirds. Before his time with Springfield, Bannister served as the head coach of the San Antonio Rampage (2018-20) and held the role of associate coach with the Utica Comets (2020-21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues made a significant move on Tuesday by removing the interim tag from coach Drew Bannister and securing his services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482818,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18483],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[22915],"acf":{"announce":"He is no longer interim head coach and puts a signature under a two-year contract ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482819,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482817\/revisions\/482819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482817"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482817"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}