Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock
Kenneth S. Hitchcock, nicknamed "Hitch", is an NHL hockey coach and pro scout, currently coaching the St. Louis Blues. He has also served as head coach of the NHL's Dallas Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, and Columbus Blue Jackets. He coached the Stars to a Stanley Cup victory in 1999...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 December 1951
CityEdmonton, Canada
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When you're playing against teams who are wounded bears or desperate, they're looking for a reason to play and when you give them a reason, they keep going.
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When you win with a player, you feel good about that player. From the red line in, Jon is one of the hungriest players in the NHL. He'll do anything to score a goal.
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We played a heck of a hockey game. We played about as well as we've played on the road all year. We fought, we clawed.
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We played a heck of a hockey game. It could have gone either way. I thought we got better and better as the game went on. We did a lot of gritty, good things in the third period. We deserved at least a point, and maybe two.
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We didn't have any second or third opportunities.
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We stayed compact. If they were going to beat us they were going to have to shoot it.
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Our team feels really good about itself right now. For any other team to lose their best player in pre-game warm-up, that's emotionally draining and these guys really responded.
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Our role players came through. You had one team (Washington) playing reckless and the other trying to get away with playing careful.
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They've got a challenge facing them to step up.
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They pushed the level out there. It's not about whether we can keep up. We don't have a choice.
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They have it all. They're playing well offensively and defensively, their special teams are playing well, they have four lines that can all score and all create chances and they're playing at a very high level.
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They?re similar players. Simon probably shoots the puck off the rush a little bit better, but they?re both determined players. It?s a great feeling when you go out for a game and you never have to worry about whether a player is going to be a committed player. I never worried about that once.
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They're a good team. They're built for the long haul. They're like us.
They have some old friends who are going to be pretty motivated,