Ken Hitchcock helped the Blues get over a big hurdle this postseason, and its coach by keeping him behind the benchfor the 2016-17 season. Hitchcock, 64, said the run to the Western Conference finalmade him want to come back. MORE: | This season has invigorated me like no season Cesar Geronimo Jersey before, Hitchcock said during a pre s conference Tuesdayat Scottrade Center. For 10 years, I havent seen anything like this and it was really exciting. It was fun to be around and it was a great group of people with a tremendously structured, defined leadership [group]in that locker room. It make it so fun to coach. I really think we have another gear in us and I want to be part of that. Hitchcock also said the 2016-17 season would be his last. Im not coaching after this year, he said. This is it. Im done. No terms on the one-year deal were made public. In Hitchcock's fiveseasons in St. Louis, while going 224-103-36, the Blues before this year had advanced pastthe firstround of the playoffs only once, in his first season (2011-12). This year, however,the Blues jumped that hurdle and more reachingthe Western Conference finalfor the first time since 2001 before falling to the Sharks. Hitchcockhas 757 regular-season NHL victories. He needs 26 more to pa s Al Arbour for third place on the career coachinglist, trailing only Scotty Bowman and JoelQuenneville, who also ranks ahead of Hitchcock on the Blues' franchise wins list with307. Frank Robinson Jersey