Craig MacTavish
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8,295 appearances
66 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Craig MacTavish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, our star players, you have to take them at the word.
I mean, it's not very often players criticize coaches.
And our guys, maybe not directly, but...
Not indirectly either.
They were critical of the coaching staff.
And, you know, I think the organization does a good job bringing them into the decision because he's going to have, when they participate in that decision, then they own it.
And he's going to have great, I mean, all coaches, we want to be able to influence players and get them to do things that maybe they weren't doing before.
And I think this gives him that ability right away to influence those players.
All right.
I used to tell Derek... I mean, the philosophy of using everybody in your lineup is...
Good.
But if you don't have the personnel and the bottom six guys aren't capable of doing it, then it doesn't work.
And Detroit, for years, it used to bother me.
They'd say, okay, we overbake our players in the American League.
Well, that's because your big team was so frigging strong you didn't need to put those players in.
Where it's a problem, and that philosophy breaks down, is that your young players are quite a bit better than the players you're keeping and you're sending them to the minors.
And I said once to Kenny Holland, I said, hey, Kenny, when Datsouk, Lidstrom...
and zetterberg are gone this stuff is going to make more sense to you than it does right now and it did and it did yeah it's just it's it's one philosophy doesn't it i mean it's all driven by the level of your personnel so full disclosure here ken holland in the five years that he was gm of the team the orders had the second best record in the west eighth best record overall okay he helped guide the team the seventh game of stanley cup now i will tell you
He also has a wonderful... I didn't like any of that stuff.
I don't think it's appropriate to do it.
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