YEO TO BECOME WILD COACH FOR 2011-12
MINNEAPOLIS — The Wild is expected to name Mike Yeo its new head coach today.
Yeo will be the third coach in club history, replacing Todd Richards. Yeo led the Wild’s top farm club in Houston to the American Hockey League finals this season, his only year as coach of the Aeros.
Richards, 44, was fired after two years without a playoff appearance. He went 77-71-16 with the Wild.
Yeo, 37, spent five seasons as an assistant coach with the Penguins, helping them win the Stanley Cup championship in 2009. He has never been an NHL head coach, like Richards, but his NHL experience was more significant than his predecessor.
Game 7 hits 37-year high
NEW YORK — The Bruins’ Stanley Cup-clinching victory over the Canucks on Wednesday night earned the highest television rating for an NHL game in 37 years.
Boston’s 4-0 win in Game 7 on NBC earned a 4.8 rating and 8 share. That’s the best since a 7. 6/27 for Boston- Philadelphia in 1974.
It’s up 2 percent from last year’s deciding Game 6 between Chicago and Philadelphia and up 12 percent from the most recent Game 7 in 2009 between Detroit and Pittsburgh.
The seven games averaged 4.6 million viewers on NBC and Versus, the most for a series split between network and cable involving a Canadian team.
The game earned a 43. 4/64 in Boston, the best for a hockey game since records began being kept for the market in 1991. That’s higher than any game in the Celtics’ last two NBA Finals.
Arrests made in Boston
BOSTON — Boston police arrested seven people during street celebrations after the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
The charges included trespassing, disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.
The arrests were made Wednesday night and early Thursday morning as Bruins fans spilled out into the streets of Boston after the team’s victory over the Canucks. The Associated Press
