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
fat meet track
It's a track meet - and I'm too fat to run, ... But you just have to keep going.
certainly feels hit playing symptoms until wednesday whether
He's not playing. He got hit (Monday) and he had concussion symptoms again, so he's out. We don't know until he feels better whether he's going to come back or not, but he's certainly not playing Wednesday or Friday, that's for sure.
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.
brought goal team
That goal brought our team back into the game.
biggest goal
That was the biggest goal of the series.
dangerous good job looking means outside
This is a dangerous time. If you are looking for outside help, it means you are not doing a good job inside.
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.
dig playing reckless team trying
No. You had one team playing reckless and one team trying to get away with playing careful. We didn't get away with it. We had to dig in.
competent develop everybody extra feeling gets good level opportunity players pressure proper skating skill special terrific
He's real impressive. His skill level and his skating level are incredible. I think that he's a special player, but I don't think there is much extra pressure on him right now. I think right now he's able to find his own level because we are competent back there. We have good players back there so he's going to be able to develop at the proper pace. But when you have a player who is that strong, everybody gets excited. And I think we are all feeling like this is a terrific opportunity for him and the franchise.
feeling lets locker nobody stay team tremendous wants
I think there's a tremendous feeling of team in the locker room. Nobody wants to be the person that lets the other person down right now. If you stay with that feeling, you can take a long run.
effective energy percent played
He played on only about 50-60 percent energy and he was still an effective player.
checking job later ourselves periods position scoring third timing travel
I thought we were a little lethargic during the first two periods with all the travel we've done. Our timing was better and our checking a lot better in the third period. We did a better job of getting ourselves into a scoring position later in the game.
darn wrong
There wasn't a darn thing wrong with our five-on-five game.
gathered great hairy ourselves second
Even when things get a little hairy like they did in the second period, we gathered ourselves and did a great job.