At age 66, with 823 National Hockey League wins in his pocket (not to mention another few hundred in junior hockey), Ken Hitchcock figures it’s time to ride off into the sunset, so he will do it literally. The only coach to bring a Stanley Cup to Dallas heads to British Columbia on Tuesday and won’t be back in Dallas to begin life as a team “consultant” until September.
He still has a stake in the game. All Hitch ever wanted -- from years toiling in obscurity through 14 different NHL postseason campaigns with four teams -- was a stake in the game.