411 Quotes by Ken Hitchcock

Management has given us a real fighting chance here to have a real good team. And it's our job now, coaches and players together, to try and put this thing together.

We were overwhelmed in the first 10 minutes, that's my responsibility. We were embarrassed for our fans and we were embarrassed for the city of Philadelphia. ... We've got a lot of work to do.

Oh, yeah. These kids are 20 years old and it's a lot to put on their plate right off the bat. This is a whole other level, and it took them a couple games to get into it. But Carter and Richards really played well (in Game 3).

It was nice not to have an absolute nail-biter for a change.

Management misses an opportunity to build a team greatly.

We had the wrong attitude to start the game. They play a heavy game, they play an old NHL game and we wanted to play around the game instead of plow through it. When you give a team that's in a desperate state like Toronto some hope, they're going to follow through.

I walked in and wrote the scores on the board and walked out. I didn't have to say anything else.

No. You had one team playing reckless and one team trying to get away with playing careful. We didn't get away with it. We had to dig in.

That was the biggest goal of the series.