Craig MacTavish

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8,295 appearances 66 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 15 Sep

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Oilers Legend Craig MacTavish (6/8/26) · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, because he was negative on, not on Mike so much, a little bit on Mike, but more on not waiting for 10 days to hire a guy that his team is...

his team has excelled in his absence.

Well, I just think, I mean, he's had a Hall of Fame coaching career.

I mean, the resume speaks for itself.

Nobody can touch that resume.

And I think he'd be looking at it as a...

vindication opportunity with a team that he could win with and unless you have the players as we've talked about many times you've got no chance i don't care whether it's scotty bowman in the 70s or the 80s if he didn't have the horsepower they weren't winning and this is a great opportunity for

for Mike, and it's a bit of a reclamation project for him and for last year's Oiler team.

So I think they kind of meet at a crossroads that could conceivably work very well, in my opinion.

Well, if you suck the life out of the group, it doesn't matter how technically or tactically

uh proficient you are it doesn't matter when the life is gone it's over and the single most important part and this is the part that john cooper gets it and that's why he's been there for a long time he's a he's had a very good hockey team in toronto he's not a canadian market but he gets the energy part of it

I mean, you have to, if you're walking out that dressing room door and I felt it over the years that if I sucked the life out of them through a long meeting or overly critical and they don't have the energy to play the game, you're screwed.

And, uh,

John Cooper understands that.

I think Bruce was there quite some time, had success in Vegas.

Don't get me wrong.

He's had a very accomplished record, but I think the energy was gone.

I don't agree with that.

I think he... I mean, he wouldn't take any situation, but to get back in, I mean... There's worse situations in Edmonton?

Worse.

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