Craig MacTavish
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But in the dressing room, he would protect you
publicly on the camera and in the media mostly unless it was reoccurring yeah unless it was reoccurring exactly but he would hold you accountable in the dressing room amongst your teammates and you know i've said it many times before the winners they want that level of accountability they want the coach to recognize these repetitive mistakes and go after them and put pressure on them
and that's where he was really good.
And, I mean, I don't know whether that's a part of coaching.
I tried to bring it to what I did as a coach, and at times I would go like Glenn would do and go through everybody sitting down on the โ
in the dressing room at their stall and talked about what they needed to do or compliment them.
But just so everybody knew that they weren't getting away with anything, that we were seeing exactly what was happening.
And I found those instances a couple times a year to be really impactful.
It's much different.
You have to...
You know, you have to explain what you're doing and why you're doing it.
And three positives for every one negative or four positives.
The Billy Moores coaching sandwich.
Tell him, you know, during the national anthem, you were really good standing straight up at attention once the game started.
You were absolutely awful.
You were unprepared.
And then when the game ended, you skated brilliantly from there right to the dressing room.
Excellent job.
The Bill Moore's coaching sandwich.
But, no, when you're making high-level plays like Evan Bouchard makes, you know, you have to live with some of the turnover.