411 Quotes by Ken Hitchcock

Even when things get a little hairy like they did in the second period, we gathered ourselves and did a great job.

That's a dangerous play in hockey when you're checking the player with the puck and he checks you. The checking player doesn't suspect that and he's not ready for it. I think you see a lot of injuries when that type of play happens.

What's disappointing is we had a lot of effort. We made some mistakes. You don't want to waste efforts like we had tonight.

We were a team going very well for an extended period of time. In the last 10 days we have not played near as well as we are capable of.

Our role players came through. You had one team (Washington) playing reckless and the other trying to get away with playing careful.

What is sneaking up is the fact he's got skill and is being labeled as a role player. But his skill is excellent. He does some good things with the puck.

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.

This was as dead as we've been in a month. I don't remember us playing this poorly. We had no work ethic. Their workers controlled the hockey game. Our goaltender was outstanding, but when you go on the road and allow almost 50 shots on goal, it's not good.

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.