After leading the St. Louis Blues to the Western Conference Final, Ken Hitchcock will return as the team's head coach for the 2016-17 season.
The team announced Tuesday that the 64-year-old signed a one-year extension after coaching under a one-year contract throughout the 2015-16 campaign. Hitchcock later told reporters that it's his last one-year deal, and that he will end his coaching career after next season.
Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was the first to report that the former Jack Adams Award winner would be back for a sixth season with the Blues.
Hitchcock has won almost two-thirds of his regular-season games since joining the Blues, going 224-103-36. Winning in the playoffs has been his Achilles' heel, however.
Even though the veteran coach has led St. Louis to the postseason in each of his five years at the helm, he won just a single playoff series prior to 2015-16.
Hitchcock and the Blues finally reached the Western Conference Final this season, but they fell short of the Stanley Cup Final once again when they were eliminated by the San Jose Sha ...
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