Maybe the most impressive thing about Ken Hitchcock becoming just the third man in NHL history to record 800 coaching wins is that nobody seems surprised.
An equipment salesman from Edmonton who had no real playing career beyond youth hockey worked himself up through the ladder of amateur and pro hockey to be able to sit in a room with the likes of Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville and Al Arbour? Yeah, that makes sense.
"Nobody ever questioned his ability," said Rick Wilson, who serves as Hitchcock's assistant coach now and also was his first assistant coach with the Stars.