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
game happens knows rather seventh
Who knows what happens if we've got the seventh game rather than Tampa.
beat forward goes holding hooking physical player playing simply
I think he was beat up. He goes from being a 15 or 16-minute player playing as a forward to a 25-minute player playing as a defenseman with all the hooking and holding and the physical play of the playoffs, he was simply beat up.
learn players starting
You just have to keep going and our players are starting to learn that.
wrapped
We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,
asked bigger
We really asked Michal to take a bigger bite.
allowing both everybody focus football good scoring spend teams time trying
We put a lot of focus on not allowing scoring chances, but (also) spend a lot of time trying to use everybody offensively. Both our teams were very, very good offensively in junior. To win, you have to play defense, just like in basketball, football and baseball. But we would like to win 6-0, not 6-5.
advantage came flat great loss mistakes played rewarded took yesterday
We played great yesterday (Saturday in a 4-3 loss to the Rangers), didn't get rewarded and came back and we had a flat start. They took advantage of our mistakes today.
almost catch team
We have to try to catch them. We are a team that is getting better almost daily.
building catch games great tough
We have to try to catch them. They have some tough games and they have to come back in our building and that should be a great game again.
edge looking speak teams
We don't do it. That's not to say that other teams don't. We don't speak about it. Some teams do it because they're looking for every competitive edge they can find.
breaking kids played
We're breaking in a lot of kids who haven't played at this level.
guys healthy talk
We have to regroup. That's the big thing. We have to get some healthy guys back in the lineup. We have some things we have to talk about from a competitive standpoint.
break knew screwing taking
I thought he was joking. I thought he's just screwing with me because he knew I was taking a break for a week.
chance coaches fighting given good job management players
Management has given us a real fighting chance here to have a real good team. And it's our job now, coaches and players together, to try and put this thing together.