After playing against the Harlem Globetrotters for decades, the Washington Generals know a bit about gamesmanship. So one former Generals player wanted to set the record straight after St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock dissed his former team.
After the Blues defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in Game 3 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, Hitchcock said: “I’m not sure we held them down. We need to find a different mechanism, because quite frankly we looked like the Washington Generals a few times. And we need to find maybe a different way to defend.