There's good reason Ken Hitchcock remembers his first career coaching victory. After his Dallas Stars beat the Vancouver Canucks in 1996, Hitchcock said he lost the game puck in a wrestling match with goalie Allan Bester. The St. Louis Blues coach joked that becoming the 11th coach in NHL history to earn his 600th win, also over Vancouver, was a simple matter of longevity. "It's basically because I'm old," the 61-year-old Hitchcock said after the offense-challenged Blues got just enough scoring for a 2-1 shootout victory on Tuesday night. "If you last long and you're old, you get this."
