At the end of the 2014-2015 season when Ken Hitchcock signed yet another year-long agreement for the Head Coach position with the St. Louis Blues, he pointed to the Blues’ speed as their main flaw, the fly in the ointment, the reason why they hadn’t blown Minnesota out of the water in four games instead of falling limply to them in six.
Here, we’ll pull that interview up again. Watch it. Watch the sincerity on his face as he talks footspeed, as he talks about how all the teams left in the playoffs had one thing the Blues didn’t have on their side: speed.