Ken Hitchcock Quotes on Hockey (14 Quotes)

I think we were overwhelmed the first 10 minutes. That's my responsibility. We were embarrassed, embarrassed by the way we performed and embarrassed by the way we finished the hockey game.

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.

We played a heck of a hockey game. It could have gone either way. I thought we got better and better as the game went on. We did a lot of gritty, good things in the third period. We deserved at least a point, and maybe two.

He's tying to play hockey, but he's certainly not a player in this series. He's just moving ahead. He's our captain and he's trying to lend support.

(It means) exactly nothing. You cant read anything (into it). Hes trying to play hockey. But, hes certainly not a player in this series.

Yeah, I think a lot of guys did. The Olympics was a lot of hockey with not a lot of breaks. I think a lot of guys had no energy. We just had to wait until the tank filled up, and it's starting to fill up.

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

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.

He's kind of an unsung hero on the hockey club. He just does his job and competes every night. You know what you're going to get when he comes to the rink.

That is probably one of the best periods of hockey we've played in this building.

It was a tough way to lose a hockey game, giving up a goal in the last 5 seconds when you're not in any real danger. That last one was a tough one.

We played a heck of a hockey game. We played about as well as we've played on the road all year. We fought, we clawed.

The game is on the line and we took two poor penalties in the third period. You can't do those things. It's unnecessary. That's the hockey game. We had tremendous effort by people, but we took two poor penalties.

We weren't prepared to pay the price to win the hockey game at the start and when you give a team like Toronto a sniff, they're going to make you pay a price.