Ya know what? How about just being quiet back there, and we’ll be all right? He knows something bad happened, and he just starts yelling. Sometimes he yells at you… He doesn’t even know what happened on the ice. “The worst players get just as mad at him as the good players,” Hull said. In turn, he gets more push back than many of his peers, and Hitchcock can live with that. His style is to drive his players harder, to impose his coaching philosophy in a more all-encompassing manner than many of his peers. But rendering judgement based on that clip of Tarasenko walking past Hitchcock on the Blues bench at the end of a period in Game 6 versus Chicago would be an error. I can’t tell you I know the answer to that. Tarasenko may be sour about his deployment under Hitchcock, or perhaps he’s just fine with his ice time.

You could chip it in get it back that way.” “You could have offence within your defensive scheme, and there were times when you didn’t have to try to make the dumb offensive play. We had to learn that we could teach each other aspects of the game. He obviously saw himself as a very intelligent coach. The problem we had at the start was, I’d always considered myself to be a very intelligent player. When he bought in, everyone bought in,” said Hull. But Mike bought in, and that’s all that mattered. He turned Mike into his checking centre, which I always thought was ass-backwards. And if he would only change his game - read: forsake some offence and work harder defensively - they could win in Dallas. Louis, playing 90-second to two minute shifts. The Blues never won jack when Hull was running off five seasons of 50 or more goals in St. The story goes that, before the Stars could win with Hull they had to transform his game. We just have different philosophies on the game. We had a great relationship - I love the guy. “He tried to make his point, then I tried to make my point. We butted heads over hockey philosophy,” explains Hull. It was neither the first, nor the last time the two disagreed over how the game should be played. Hitchcock kicked Hull off the practice ice that day.

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