Ken Hitchcock is done with the day-to-day grind of a hockey season. He loved being a coach and will miss it, to be sure, but at 66 years old, he seems to be at peace with accepting a lesser role within the organization (though not completely walking away from the game):
“You’re not a big part any more, but you’re still part of an organization,” Hitchcock said Monday morning outside a Dallas coffee shop. “Tony La Russa told me that once you’re a coach or a manager, you always have to have that stake in the game.