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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Brett catches everyone staring at the puck. He's always in the open spaces to shoot. He finds the sneaky areas.
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The third period was tremendous. A lot of people played very, very well today.
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I've always found that veteran players play significant roles in playoffs because they know what the level is like. And over a short period of time they can get themselves to that level because they know it's a two-month season.
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Beating people one-on-one, getting to loose pucks, those are all the things you lose if you get this much time off. And that's why we're scrimmaging at practice. We're having little games inside of the practice themselves.
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As the game wore on, we were out-competed,
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Could I give you that on Friday night? We have to win our home games and take care of business there.
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You give skilled players that many power plays and eventually you are going to get some people tired and that is what happened. We made a couple of tired decisions at the end.
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To me, it's about new heroes. It's about people other than the obvious ones stepping up. It's about people supplying energy and momentum for you. We're in a no-choice situation. We need everybody to bring the energy they can.
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We're disappointed. We played a great game. We deserved a better fate. It's the best game we've played in a month.
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We think Jeff, he played 13 minutes the last couple games, we think he can play a little bit more.
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We did a lot of better things; we played the same way for 60 minutes that we did for 45 minutes in Carolina. We played good. We fought really hard. Ottawa is a team that everyone talks about their speed, but to me it's about their competitiveness. Every board battle is critical.
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There's no point stepping up if you're not comfortable doing it. The stepping up means you have to show the work ethic.
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There's no better feeling in the world than having Game 7 in your building. We'll continue to push to get the higher seed.
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We really like the fact we're able to just coach. We're allowed to just focus on teaching, and planning, and Jacques and I really like that.