411 Quotes by Ken Hitchcock

We just love his competitiveness. He's a reckless player, and that type of player seems to have a lot of success in the NHL right now.

Look, it's not pretty. It's about getting points right now. We talked about fighting to the end and we fought to the end and got two points.

It's always tough to lose 7-1. Losing like that at home is just very tough on all of us.

We just want the younger guys around confident people. Mike is a guy who doesn't need much direction. He's already motivated -- he reminds you of a 10-year pro the way he carries and handles himself.

We're halfway through the trip and still have a lot of games left, and then we come home with no rest before we get Colorado. We're like a lot of teams. We have a tough month of January ahead of us because of the Olympics.

It kind of woke him up. He doesn't mind that. He's been through that before. I thought the more he got hit, the better he played, quite frankly.

Look, it's my responsibility to get the team ready, OK? This is on me. We were embarrassed for our fans and for the city of Philadelphia with the way we played. We've got to make amends when we go back home and get this series back even. We've got a lot of work to do.

It seemed like every mistake we made went in our net. We deserved a better fate. We had a ton of things go right. We out-shot them. We out-chanced them. We outplayed them, but they're an opportunistic team and they took advantage of the mistakes we made. That's what good teams do.

When I look at Simon, I see the same player I've seen for two years. But now he plays with a center man who is a playmaker. I see a guy who gets to the puck who never got to it when he was here previously. He gets a lot of goals off the rush, which he never used to get before.