Monday, November 28, 2011

Blues Remain Hot Under Hitchcock

The Blues won their third consecutive game Sunday at Columbus and improved to 7-1-2 under Ken Hitchcock. His .800 win percentage is the best 10 game start in team history, surpassing
Joel Quenneville (.700), the team's all-time wins leader.

Most importantly, the Blues have grabbed 16 of 20 points with Hitchcock at the helm. When he took over November 6, the Blues were in 14th place in the western conference. They now sit in 5th place with 28 points.

Hitchcock now has 541 NHL wins. He won a Stanley Cup with Dallas in 1999 and two gold medals with team Canada in 2002 and 2012.

Game Highlights

6 comments:

Dustin Holland said...

The coaching change really lit a fire in these guys. Good to see quality hockey again without overuse of fancy playbook strategory. Are You gonna make this blog a regular thing or is this just a trial run? It looks great. Better than 101ESPN Blog site.

Jacob said...

Thanks Dustin. I actually kept it up a few years back while in college. I am starting it up again, and hope to write regularly!

Dustin Holland said...

Right on. Keep up the good work. Will definitely follow.

Anonymous said...

hopefully bergie can start hitting some empty nets!

josh wuertz said...

hopefully bergie can start hitthing some empty neets!

Jacob said...

I'll be happy if he just hits somebody!