The St. Louis Blues are adding a Hall of Famer to their hockey operations group.
On Friday, the team announced that Sergei Zubov has been hired as an advisor to hockey operations. The 56-year-old is no stranger to the organization, having previously worked with St.
Louis as a team consultant during the 2012-13 season. He also has NHL front office experience with the Dallas Stars, where he served as a senior advisor in 2019-20.
Most of Zubov’s post-playing career has come behind the bench in the KHL. Last season, he was an assistant coach for Traktor Chelyabinsk. Before that, he spent time as a head coach with three different KHL franchises.
Zubov took over as head coach of SKA St. Petersburg during part of the 2015-16 season after Andrei Nazarov departed.
He later became the bench boss at HK Sochi for the 2017-18 season and stayed there until being fired in October of 2019. He also had a short stint as Dinamo Riga’s head coach at the start of the 2021-22 season before resigning in October of 2021.
Zubov returned to HK Sochi as head coach in 2024-25, but was dismissed after the season.
As a player, Zubov built a 16-year NHL career with the Rangers, Penguins, and Stars. New York drafted him in the fifth round of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, and he emerged as a top defenseman in 1993-94, posting 89 points in 78 games and adding 19 points in 22 playoff games as the Rangers won the Stanley Cup.
He spent one season with Pittsburgh in 1995-96 before finishing his career in Dallas, where he won his second Stanley Cup in 1999.
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