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
hero hockey job
He's kind of an unsung hero on the hockey club. He just does his job and competes every night. You know what you're going to get when he comes to the rink.
comeback goals importance
He scored so many big goals for me in Dallas. It was frightening how many big goals he scored. The '98 and '99 seasons, he had comeback goals, clinching goals, important goals. That was it. Not the goals he scored, but the importance of the goals he scored.
comeback goals importance
He scored so many big goals for me in Dallas, ... It was frightening how many big goals he scored. The '98 and '99 seasons, he had comeback goals, clinching goals, important goals. That was it. Not the goals he scored, but the importance of the goals he scored.
earned player prime time
He's earned a right to be a prime time player for us. (Sim) has just come out and earned his spot.
good rank serial tells
His name, rank and serial number. As long as he tells me that, he's good to go.
good listen shock
He's good for shock therapy. We don't necessarily listen for his ideas, but for his passion.
inside maybe net presence shots third three turnaround wild
We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.
compliments
We look at that as a compliment, first of all,
decisions four gave man odd played poor though three
We made some really poor decisions and we gave up three or four odd man rushes. Even though we only gave up 15 shots, we played really poor defensively.
bit capable effort great group last level next step strides taking
We made some great strides last year, but there's another level out there. I think it's a group effort to get to the next level. We don't need one thing from one player, we just need a little bit more from every player. We are capable of taking the next step as a group, but it's just a little bit more from every player.
matter mistakes poor
We made mistakes that it doesn't matter who we played. We made really poor decisions. We made poor reads.
best caused game played plays puck soft tenacious
Over all, this was the best game they've played in the series. They were very tenacious and they caused us to make soft plays with the puck at inopportune times.
games quality season taking
Our whole season has to be about quality and not quantity. We?re going to have games like (Wednesday) and we?re going to have to get used to it. But it snowballed for us. We started taking too many penalties. We were all over the map.
almost coming continuity fourth game hockey lines onto row solid starting stay together
Our whole game was solid today. This is now the fourth game in a row where we had almost the same lineup. We haven?t been able to do that for four months. Now we are starting to have lines stay together for more than one game and some continuity is coming onto out hockey club.