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
expect game hard home living team wore
I thought we got better as the game wore on. When you're killing back-to-back-to-back penalties, it's hard to get momentum. That's living dangerously. You can't expect a team at home to go 0-for-9 again.
concern game great performance waste win wore
I thought we got better as the game wore on. I think the concern is you don't want to waste a great performance by a goalie. You need your goalie to win those games.
game good happened respond tendency
We had to respond after what happened in Game 2 in Buffalo. We have to play to win. We have a tendency to make things interesting in the end but we did some good things tonight.
buffalo game happened respond
We had to respond after what happened in Game 2 in Buffalo and we did.
best caused game played plays puck soft tenacious
Over all, this was the best game they've played in the series. They were very tenacious and they caused us to make soft plays with the puck at inopportune times.
games quality season taking
Our whole season has to be about quality and not quantity. We?re going to have games like (Wednesday) and we?re going to have to get used to it. But it snowballed for us. We started taking too many penalties. We were all over the map.
almost coming continuity fourth game hockey lines onto row solid starting stay together
Our whole game was solid today. This is now the fourth game in a row where we had almost the same lineup. We haven?t been able to do that for four months. Now we are starting to have lines stay together for more than one game and some continuity is coming onto out hockey club.
game happens knows rather seventh
Who knows what happens if we've got the seventh game rather than Tampa.
games good played tonight
We've played some good games for 45 or 50 minutes. Tonight we played 60 minutes.
build defense eric games great guys join offensive saw six top
We saw 12-14 games where we had our top six guys back there. Our defense on the back end was awesome. When we were healthy, we had a great group. We could defend, we could join the rush, we could be offensive and we could do anything. Getting Joni and Eric back will give us something to build on after the break.
allowed bit chasing game lead
We got the lead and weren't chasing the game. It allowed us to play our game a little bit better.
game good group guys join minutes phantoms playing ready seventh six touch wood
Touch wood we?re in pretty good shape. We have six guys who are playing pretty good as a group for the most part and we have a seventh guy (Jones) who is playing 30 minutes a game with the Phantoms who was here with us before getting ready to join us in the playoffs. So we have seven. It?s a good mix.
game protect puck
We didn't protect the puck when the game was on the line, and that's disappointing.
games goals great grit line scoring speed winning
We?re winning games without Peter?s line scoring goals for us, and that?s a great sign. We?re winning games different ways. Sometimes it?s with speed and skill. We had to grit it out today.