So Ken Hitchcock will call it an NHL coaching career at the end of next season.
Hitch needs 26 more wins to catch Al Arbour in third place on the NHL all-time win list and GM Doug Armstrong points out his 64-year-old Blues coach has rattled off two wins in every three games since he was hired on in St. Louis.
So, that would be game 39.
And here’s an idea.
How about the Oilers ask the NHL to schedule the Blues here for, oh, let’s say, Game 40?
Ken Hitchcock signed a one-year extension with the Blues Tuesday.