Craig MacTavish
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
slow it down a gear at times if he can but i mean the team is seldom in that position where he can throttle it back i mean he's the only guy a lot of nights he and leon that are are driving it and uh it's hard for him to throttle it back and play a more like shall we say a kucherov style game where he's you know he's he's lurking more than he's attacking
Well, yeah, that's it.
I mean, Kucherov, he does it, you know, with head and hands.
And Connor does it with head, hands, and feet.
Yeah, no, injuries, it is an excuse.
I mean, it's a valid excuse.
I mean, we were beat up.
And Henrik, I mean, I remember you and I talking here about...
henrique over samansky and i mean it was kind of a laughable question to me at the time i mean you need guys like adam henrique in the playoffs because they're never going to make a mental mistake he wins all kinds of face-offs and uh as great with savoy on the penalty kill i mean yeah he was he was a huge loss as things unfolded but
I mean, the injuries played a big, big part of it because of the injuries.
To your point, their young players got better every game.
They got more and more confidence, and they were tougher and tougher to put away, and eventually they got us.
But Colson and Kaepernick.
Top six guys for me.
I mean, you know, it's not up to me.
Like, it's not my position or my... You've been in the chair before.
And the last thing I want to do is pile on at the end of a disappointing season.
And it's just, you know, it's not something that...
that I'm prepared to do.
And normally people, when they say that, then they go ahead and pile on, but I'm not going to do it.