411 Quotes by Ken Hitchcock

You can see it in our body language. You can see it in practice and in the games.

Guys going out all the time, we needed to suck it up.

We stayed compact. If they were going to beat us they were going to have to shoot it.

It's just bad luck. We feel like we might as well get it done now. If we wait 25 games and he's sore, he won't get a chance to play (healthy) down the line.

This is a huge deal for the players. For once in their lives, they get to feel like an athlete, not an entertainment machine. They live with everyone else from different sports. They get to represent their countries, which is the biggest thing for these players. From the experiences of '98 and '02, this is a big thing.

Keith, when he feels good, is just going to come to the games, he's just going to observe the team's play, take notes and hopefully give us some insight, kind of like a player-coach who isn't playing.

We're trying to play catch-up far too often, and that's a hard way to play hockey.

We're in a tough state right now. We have some real adversity. Every mistake is in our net. We can't score on the chances we get. We can't kill penalties.

The difference was we had a great start to the game and played very well, but when they got their power plays, it shifted the momentum back their way. We did a lot of things really well today. Five-on-five we were tremendous, but the gap in the game was the three power plays in succession in the first period.