Like most people who get into the HHOF, the call blindsided him, even though he is fourth in career National Hockey League coaching wins.
After the honour, he was thinking of his dad, who died of a tumour in his back when Ken was 14 and mum Barb, who passed of throat cancer seven years later. Also, his local Riverside Rats teenage golf buddies — Brent Bailey, Paul and Steve Godsell, Don Ovelson, Jan Willey, Brent Hughes, Felix Stark, Lyle Kuchmak — and all their betting games. And Bob Gainey and Bob Clarke , and old friend GM Doug Armstrong in St.
“That grew into team and club sales. The story about me sharpening skates is lore that has grown legs, though. All these people who tell me I sharpened their skates … either they’re dreaming or I am. I did sell a lot of skates, though.” “But, you know what? I really followed coaches from a really young age. I go back to Buster Brayshaw whom my dad knew well. I go back to Glen Sather and John Muckler with the Oilers, Clare, Perry Pearn, the whole group of guys who were in Edmonton. They were my heroes,” he said.
Hitchcock was a howling success with the midget Chain Gang. “I wasn’t sure where it would ever go, but I just loved what I was doing. Same thing in junior, even in Kalamazoo. I had no aspirations,” said Hitchcock.
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