Elliott Mondou Promoted to Blues Assistant General Manager at 25

Elliott Mondou was promoted to assistant general manager of the St. Louis Blues on Monday, moving the 25-year-old into one of the club’s top front-office jobs. He had spent four years as a coordinator and video coach, and the change leaves the Blues with a different setup as Alexander Steen settles in as general manager.

Jim Montgomery on Mondou

Jim Montgomery said Mondou wanted to continue his career “dans une autre direction” and praised the work that got him there. “Elliott est une tête de hockey extrêmement brillante qui comprend comment combiner les données et un système de jeu, et comment un coach veut que son équipe joue,” Montgomery said in a Monday conference call. “Il va nous manquer au sein du personnel.”

Blues front office shift

Steen made the promotion decision after replacing Doug Armstrong as general manager, giving Mondou a larger role at a young age. Mondou’s path inside the organization has run through video work and coordination, which is the same lane that brought him into the building before this move.

Montgomery has been head coach since November 2024, and the Blues used the same round of changes to alter the bench behind him. Jérémy Coupal will replace Mondou as video coach after working for the Nashville Predators from 2013 to 2016 and the Edmonton Oilers from 2016 to 2023, then moving to the company behind the XOS video analysis software.

Coupal, Cronin, Prospal

St. Louis also added Greg Cronin and Vaclav Prospal as assistant coaches. Cronin was head coach of the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League last season, while Prospal is getting his first NHL coaching job behind a bench after three seasons as an assistant in Rochester and three more in the Czech Republic.

Prospal also brings a long playing résumé, with 1,108 NHL games. The coaching shakeup gives the Blues a different mix of experience around Montgomery, while Mondou’s promotion puts a Quebec-born executive into a senior NHL management role at 25.