Yawney Fired!

TSN is reporting that Trent Yawney was fired by the Chicago Blackhawks. Denis Savard will replace him as the head coach. As TSN pointed it out, there's no interim tag on Savard.

Latrappe's take: TSN says that Chicago fired Yawney due to his "defensive" approach but without Havlat and Handzus in the lineup, that situation looked DOA for me. Nothing was done, trade wise, to help the coach and it seems that the front office was looking for a scapegoat. That said, Denis Savard is well known among the organisation and a fresh look might help the team but, still, without their two top forwards, it will be pretty tough to turn things around in Chicago.