Ken Hitchcock Poor Quotations

We made mistakes that it doesn't matter who we played. We made really poor decisions. We made poor reads.

We made some really poor decisions and we gave up three or four odd man rushes. Even though we only gave up 15 shots, we played really poor defensively.

We took really poor penalties. We made defending mistakes. When you don't kill them off, it's deflating. And when you don't score on your opportunities, it's even more deflating.

It certainly wasn't based on anybody's poor play and that's what made it such a difficult decision.

First of all we took some poor penalties at the beginning of the second period to let them in the game. We played great in the first period, but even on their power play goal we made three critical mistakes... There are two things that really concern me right now. Against the good teams we lose the special teams game and when you can't kill a penalty, that's a big concern.

The game is on the line, and we took two poor penalties in the third period. We competed at a high level, we just got beat.

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.