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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There's a tremendous feeling of team in the locker room. There's a tremendous feeling of not wanting to let the other guy down, and especially when the game's on the line, you see it every night. ... If you stay with that feeling, you can take a long run.
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About 25 percent of your job is coaching the team on the ice and about 75 percent of your job is all of the stuff that happens off the ice, whether it be preparation or putting out fires. I think he's going in with his eyes wide open about that.
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That's what this league is going to be -- whoever chops the most wood at the end of the day is going to win.
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That's who he is. That's the way he plays. He's got a really big heart, good skill level, but it's his heart and his competitiveness that he carries with him. What's interesting for me is, the game was on the line and he was the best player on the ice. That speaks volumes for a 20-year-old player.
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That's living dangerously. You can't live like that. You can't live expecting a team at home to go 0 for 9 again. That's no way to live. You're going to have to be better in that area.
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That one line, you can't turn it over against them. (The Red Wings) schooled us. They turned every mistake we made at the start of the third period into a goal.
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You've got two countrymen going at it and neither guy really blinked until we got into (overtime) at the end there. This was very much like a playoff game.
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They do little things that at the end of the day add up to really good things for the team.
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You don't want to take a penalty in the last three or four minutes of the game.
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You don't want to start out next weekend trying to find your hockey game.
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There wasn't a darn thing wrong with our five-on-five game.
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There were some penalties today that should have been called. We hooked and held, and that's what it is.
primitive
There were some long games. There was some city-by-city emotion. There was a lot of anger. There was a lot of high-spirited competition. It was down to its most primitive level.
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This is the state were in right now. We played great yesterday and didn't get rewarded. We had a flat start to this game. Montreal took advantage and scored 5-on-3. They took advantage of our mistakes. We have to regroup. We have to get some healthy guys back in our lineup. We didn't play our best game today. We have some things we have to talk about in the next 48 hours.