Mike Yeo just wants to win.

The St. Louis Blues coach is solely focused on finding the victory column when the Blues travel to Minnesota on Tuesday to take on the Wild.

The game marks Yeo's first return to St. Paul as a head coach since the Wild fired him as their own bench boss last February.

Yeo joined the Blues in the offseason, signing on as associate coach before taking on head coach duties after Ken Hitchcock was fired Feb. 1. The Blues visited Minnesota on Dec. 11, with Yeo second-in-command. Tuesday will be his first game back in Minnesota in the top job.

Yeo coached the Wild from 2011-16, qualifying for the playoffs in all but one year. His time in Minnesota ended last season, following a stretch in which the Wild won just once in 14 outings (1-11-2).

Now behind the bench in Missouri, it's been a tale of two seasons since Yeo took over for Hitchcock. After going 7-1 to kick off his coaching tenure, the Blues then fell to 1-5 in their next six contests.

The Blues are clinging to the West's final playoff spot, one point ahead of Los Angeles. Tuesday's game is an opportunity for St. Louis to get its season back on track, a fact not lost on the new coach.

"I want to win the game for a number of reasons," Yeo told Michael Rand of the Star Tribune. "I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a personal part of it, but I'd like this one for our team."

The Blues and Wild have split their season series, winning two games apiece, while Tuesday's contest marks the final time the two sides will meet in the regular season.

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