Ken Hitchcock Time Quotations

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.

He's a really smart player who kind of grows on you. He's always in the right place at the right time and he's solid everywhere.

He's earned a right to be a prime time player for us. (Sim) has just come out and earned his spot.

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.

I think that it's given a lot of people, including myself, time to pause and reflect,

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.

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.

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.

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.

This time of year, emotion is all with the players, it's all in the locker room. Intensity and emotion comes from the players.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

In my opinion, Jon should have been a 30-goal scorer a long time ago,