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Colorado Avalanche: Should the Team Consider Ken Hitchcock?

As a Colorado Avalanche fan, I don’t like Ken Hitchcock, the former coach of the St. Louis Blues.

A lot of this dislike stems from the incident in which then-captain David Backes tackled and tried to hog-tie then-rookie Nathan MacKinnon. Then-coach Patrick Roy called the move “gutless” to which Hitchcock responded:

“He can say whatever he wants. He always has something to say after every game.”

So annoying. I never really liked his coaching style either. He has a history of calling out his own players in the media.