Mike Kitchen
Mike Kitchen
Michael Elwin "the Kitch" Kitchenis a Canadian former defenceman and he currently serves as an assistant coach for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. As of February 2016, Kitch has coached in over 2400 NHL games including playoffs. In 2012/2013 he assisted in coaching the Hawks to their longest winning streak without a loss...
decision longer
I think that's the decision they have to make. It could be a month, it could be longer ... I'm not sure.
calm looks net past scoring tough
We had some scoring chances, but it's tough to get it past Luongo. He looks very calm in the net and you look at their coaches, they look very calm over there.
couple expect miracles moved worked
We moved it around. Had a couple of chances, but the first day we worked on it was today. You can't expect miracles out of it.
effort guys hearts played terrific
No, not at all. Our effort was terrific out there. Our guys played their hearts out.
decisions fatigue plays poor shut starts understand
I think fatigue set in. You understand it when you're an athlete. Everything starts to shut down. You make poor decisions with the puck. We made plays out there that we haven't made in a long time. A lot of that is through fatigue.
add consider depth guys help playoff run teams throughout
If it's going to help the organization, you have to consider that and make that move. We've got some guys that would really add some depth to other teams throughout the NHL, especially those teams that are on a playoff run or in the playoffs.
deserves good gotten leader terrific tremendous worked year
He deserves everything he's gotten here. He's worked hard; he's been a good leader in the room; he's been a tremendous leader on the ice. He's been terrific for us all year long.
expect good ice might opportunity role year
He will have the opportunity to get good ice time. His role might be more than with some other teams. And put in that situation, I think he'll play well. I expect a real good year number-wise.
chance final gives great minute period saves second win
He gives is a chance to win every night. He made some great saves on their 5-on-3 (during the final minute of the second period and first minute of the third.
confidence dropped greedy lost net ok shoot
When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.
coming decisions ice move players time
We couldn't give (Downey) the ice time that he thought he needed, so we had to make a move and take a look at some of these young players because we've got to make decisions on them coming up.
almost amount bound deserved good hard minutes penalty played time tough trouble
We played hard tonight, I thought we had a good effort. We had penalty trouble once again, some deserved and some not. You get into two 5-on-3 (power plays) for that amount of time, that's tough -- they're bound to get a score. It was almost 19 minutes of power-play time for them.
good played
We played hard, I thought we had good effort.
full looking year
He's probably looking at ... in a full year ... probably getting 20-25 goals.