The St. Louis Blues have named Mike Yeo the team's associate coach.

In addition, the club announced that Yeo will be named head coach to begin the 2017-18 season. His contract will run through the 2019-20 season.  

Rick Wilson was also named an assistant coach, while assistant coach Ray Bennett, goaltending coach Jim Corsi and video coach Sean Ferrell will return to the coaching staff.  

Yeo, 42, spent the majority of the past five seasons as the head coach of the Minnesota Wild.  During his tenure, the North Bay, Ontario, native led the Wild to a 173-132-44 regular season record, including a 46-28-8 mark in 2014-15, which was the second best record in Wild franchise history.  Yeo also guided the Wild to three postseason berths, including back-to-back trips to the second round in 2014 and 2015.

Prior to his stint in Minnesota, Yeo spent one season as the head coach of the American Hockey League's Houston Aeros, where he led the club to the 2011 Calder Cup Final.  He also spent 10 seasons in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization, including four seasons as an assistant coach with Pittsburgh, where he captured the 2009 Stanley Cup.  Yeo's first six seasons in the organization were spent as an assistant with the Penguins AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

Wilson, 65, has spent the past five seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild.  The former Blues defenceman has been behind an NHL bench in various roles for the past 27 seasons, including stints as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars - where he captured the 1999 Stanley Cup as a part of Ken Hitchcock's staff.  The Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, native also served a brief term as Dallas' head coach in 2001-02 and continued on as the club's associate doach from 2002-09, before spending one season as Tampa Bay's associate coach in 2009-10.  During his playing career, Wilson dressed in 239 NHL regular season games, including time with Montreal, St. Louis and Detroit.