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
dropped energy happened peter second soon start terrific time
We had such a terrific start to the game. And to me, as soon as Peter went out, our whole energy just dropped right off the cliff. Our energy went right down the tubes. That's the second time that's happened and that's got to change.
spend time trying zone
We had some breakdowns. When you spend as much time in the other team's zone as we did, you're going to get some of those breakdowns when you're trying to score.
found level period players playoffs roles short themselves time veteran
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.
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.
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.
foot guilty throat time
We've been guilty of that all year. There's a time you've got to put your foot on the throat and we let it off.
foot guilty time
We've been guilty of that all year. There's a time when you've got to put your foot on the other team's throat. We let off. We're guilty of that at home. Not on the road, but we're guilty of that at home.
foot guilty killer time
We've been guilty of that all year. There's a time when you have to put your foot on the throat. We let it off. We've been guilty of that at home. We have to have a killer instinct.
emotion intensity locker peter time
Peter is all business. At this time of year, the emotion is all in the players. It's all in your locker room. It doesn't come from the coach. The intensity and the emotion all come from the players.
coach deal everyday fingers fixing great problem quickly spend talked time
We talked this summer, and the one thing I told him is you find out pretty quickly you have to put a lot of fingers in dikes. You spend a great deal of your time just fixing everyday problems. That's kind of what a coach is, a problem solver.
discussion intense july losing response sure team time winning
The only thing I know is that we've always responded to losing in a really intense fashion. The response to winning has been our problem. I'm not sure why; that's probably a discussion for July or August. But it's been the M.O. of our team for a long time now.
emotion intensity locker time
This time of year, emotion is all with the players, it's all in the locker room. Intensity and emotion comes from the players.
fits game good peaks plays soft time valleys
I thought we went in fits and starts. We went in peaks and valleys during the game and we made good plays and we made soft plays, and I think that over time we are going to have to get firmer in those areas.
camp injury start time training
This is an injury that when we did our medicals at the start of training camp was an injury that was in place from his time in New Jersey,