Craig MacTavish

And he's a good coach too.

He was a really good coach.

And we used to send...

notes back and forth, like in the starting lineup, you know, and the coaches gets a copy back in those days, and I'd send a note back, kind of a comedic note, and he'd send something back, and then I get their starting lineup back, and he said something funny, but I look, and he started the wrong thing.

frigging goalie and i'm going i gotta call him on it you know like i this it was hard to do but you just i didn't have any choice and i called him on it and sure enough they scored in the first shift of the game robbie de mayo de mayo scored in dallas the first shift of the game shane hire who i know and and buddies with he was the linesman he was a referee then because he had a stint as a referee this might have been the end of his 10 years a referee but uh

So I called him over and I said, you know, they started the wrong goalie.

And so he mistakenly wiped the goal out, which was the wrong call.

And so they wiped the goal out and got a two-minute penalty.

Instead, they should have counted the goal and had the two-minute penalty.

Yeah, and so it was devastating for Dallas.

They still won the game, so he wasn't that upset at the end, but...

It was Dave Tippett, and I always had a few laughs because we had a mutual buddy.

Mark Lamb was on their staff, and he's a good, good buddy of mine.

There we go.

Did they write that stuff for you?

And what do you think... I have my own opinion on what the difference is, but what do you think the difference was in Taylor Hall...

from the previous year to the year that he won the Hart Trophy.

Wasn't it his first year that he won?

Yeah, I just thought he was more motivated.

Yeah.