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
beating games inside loose lose people practice time
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.
game wore
As the game wore on, we were out-competed,
business care friday games home win
Could I give you that on Friday night? We have to win our home games and take care of business there.
couple decisions eventually people players plays power skilled tired
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.
bring energy everybody momentum obvious people stepping
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.
best deserved fate game great played
We're disappointed. We played a great game. We deserved a better fate. It's the best game we've played in a month.
bit couple last minutes played
We think Jeff, he played 13 minutes the last couple games, we think he can play a little bit more.
falling
There was a falling out. Oh, yes, there was a falling out.
means point stepping work
There's no point stepping up if you're not comfortable doing it. The stepping up means you have to show the work ethic.
continue feeling game higher push
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.
against body coached due hear ice laid numbers peter until wonder
I've coached against Peter and he'll take numbers and get even in due time. You won't hear anything about it, until you see a body laid out on the ice and you'll wonder how that happened.
constantly difficult fans games playoff road seen win
I've seen our fans just will us in playoff games. I think home-ice is something you need. It's very important. It's real difficult when you constantly have to win road games in the playoffs.
absolutely emotion great guys intensity literally played players position raise seen series
I've seen young guys who've played great and I've seen them absolutely overwhelmed. I've seen young players literally in the fetal position during a series because they're overwhelmed by the intensity and the emotion of what's going on. And I've seen guys raise their level.
doubt nice peter
It would be nice to get Peter back, but we can't have doubt in our game.