{"id":823670,"date":"2026-07-24T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:58:15","slug":"zubov-joins-blues-as-advisor-to-hockey-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823670\/","title":{"rendered":"Zubov joins Blues as advisor to hockey operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Blues General Manager\u00a0Alexander Steen\u00a0announced today that the team has\u00a0hired\u00a0Sergei Zubov as an advisor to hockey operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to bring in Sergei with the incredible resume he built over his Hall of Fame career as a player,\u201d said Steen. \u201cAs a coach he brings a unique skillset and experience that will be a valuable asset throughout our hockey operations group.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zubov, 56, has held a variety of positions in coaching and hockey management since finishing his playing career in 2010. Zubov served as an assistant coach for multiple KHL teams between 2011-15 before being promoted to head coach of SKA Saint Petersburg in 2015-16. Zubov also held heading coach roles with HK Sochi (2017-19, 2024-25) and Dinamo Riga (2021) of the KHL and the Russian U-20 team in 2021-22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zubov first returned to the NHL in 2012-13 with the Blues as a team consultant and was named senior consultant to hockey operations for the Dallas Stars in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues General Manager\u00a0Alexander Steen\u00a0announced today that the team has\u00a0hired\u00a0Sergei Zubov as an advisor to hockey operations.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-823670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}