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Last February http://www.officialislanders.com/authentic-adidas-adam-pelech-jersey , Mike Yeo unfurled in Nashville, although no one suspected it at the time.The St. Louis Blues‘ coach was sitting pretty on a Tuesday night with a 3-0 lead midway through the third period, his team about to move two points closer to the Predators in the Central Division race with plenty of time to catch them.Then Nashville roared back with three goals in a five-minute span to force overtime and won on a penalty shot by Filip Forsberg. That was the pivotal result in a seven-game losing streak that helped St. Louis miss the playoffs by one point.Article continues below ...Yeo’s Blues never gained any traction this season, either, and after a 2-0 loss Monday night to Los Angeles dropped their record to 7-9-3, the hangman arrived. General manager Doug Armstrong canned his third coach in seven-plus years and promoted Craig Berube on an interim basis. Berube doesn’t exactly get to ease into the new gig, taking St. Louis to Nashville Wednesday night for the first of a home-and-home series with the NHL’s top team. The division rivals square off again Friday night in St. Louis.The first job for Berube is to find a way to get a puck into the net. Monday night’s defeat was the third time in four games the Blues have been blanked. This time, it was by Cal Peterson, he of three games of NHL experience.“It’s hard to win when you don’t score goals,” forward Vladimir Tarasenko told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The 45-year-old Yeo was the NHL’s second coach to lose his job this season, hours ahead of Edmonton parting ways with Todd McLellan on Tuesday.Los Angeles axed John Stevens on Nov. 3 in favor of Willie Desjardins. Like the Blues, the Kings are off to a slow start and face a serious uphill climb if they are to get into contention.Having gotten a coach fired Anders Lee Jersey , St. Louis figures to come out with a detailed effort Wednesday night. But it went 0-for-4 last season against the Predators (15-5-1), and with key forwards like Patrick Maroon, Alexander Steen and Jaden Schwartz injured, scoring goals against Pekka Rinne doesn’t look like it will be easy.Rinne (8-2-1, 1.69 goals-against average, .942 save percentage) came up big for Nashville in a 3-2 victory Monday night over Tampa Bay, stopping 29 of 31 shots. He got help from defenseman Mattias Ekholm, who denied the Lightning a tying goal in the last 10 seconds by knocking a puck away from the goal line after it trickled off and behind Rinne.“We knew we were going to get pressured hard there at the end with their skill and six guys on the ice,” Rinne said. “But our guys did a great job — we blocked a lot of shots and made it hard for them.”The Predators might regain the services of All-Star defenseman P.K. Subban, who’s sat out the last three games with a lower-body injury.The Blues are expected to start Jake Allen (5-5-3, 3.33, .895) Andrew Ladd Jersey , who has ceded just one goal in each of his last three outings. The Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars carried their longest winning streaks of the season into December, but each delivered unforeseen duds last weekend, leaving their coaches careful not to grow too optimistic heading into their third matchup of the season Wednesday at Honda Center in Anaheim.The Ducks (16-11-5) had won six of seven games to move into the top three in the Pacific Division, but played uninspired in a 4-1 loss to the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Friday. Anaheim then took on the New Jersey Devils, the last place team in the Eastern Conference, and needed to rally from three deficits before winning 6-5 in a shootout Sunday.“It takes 60 minutes, and sometimes 65-plus, to win a hockey game and get two points,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle told the Orange County Register after practice Monday. “That’s really the way we try to approach it, because you’re not going to be perfect every night. You’re going to have your peaks and valleys. You’re going to have some good games, where you think things are going well, and the next game can really be a nightmare.”Article continues below ...The Stars (16-11-3) had won a season-high four straight games before losing 4-2 against the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday to open a four-game road trip. Dallas didn’t come out with the pace and determination that was evident during the first three games of the winning streak.“I’m a little concerned right now Anthony Beauvillier Jersey , just because our energy and our emotion the last two games hasn’t been what it was there,” Dallas coach Jim Montgomery told reporters after the loss to Vegas. “We were consistently playing with energy, emotion, and a lot of competitiveness, which comes with those two qualities, and the last two games we haven’t had it.”The Stars have already defeated the Ducks twice this season in Dallas 12 days apart in October.The Stars erased a 3-0 deficit in a 5-3 victory Oct. 13, the only regulation loss through the first seven games of the season for the Ducks.Dallas scored four second-period goals in the first win against Anaheim, and the Stars came back with three in the middle period in the second meeting with Anaheim — a 5-2 win.Anaheim goaltender John Gibson started both games against Dallas and will likely be the starter against Wednesday after coming on in relief against the Devils after Ryan Miller sustained a knee injury at 7:13 of the third period.Miller, who was trying for his 375th NHL win, which would have moved him past John Vanbiesbrouck as the winningest U.S.-born goalie in NHL history, is expected to be sidelined for about six weeks. The Ducks claimed Chad Johnson off waivers Tuesday and he’ll likely be Gibson’s backup.Ben Bishop is expected to make his second start in goal against the Ducks this season.Anaheim forward Ryan Getzlaf needs one point to become the second player for Anaheim to record 900 career points — all with the Ducks.Jakob Silfverberg will try to set a career high by scoring a goal in four straight games.