Craig McTavish

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Oilers Legend Craig MacTavish (3/23/26) · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

And, you know, they're all good players.

You don't get to the NHL without being a good player.

But there's a standard there if you want to have success.

and want to consistently win games at the NHL that you have to have.

And I'm not sure, you know, it's further highlighted with Leon out, obviously, because, you know, because of obvious reasons.

But I mean, my assessment is you can possibly impact the game as a player in a myriad of ways.

I mean, the skill level, probably most important.

You know, great defensive play, physical contributions, you know, great effort, execute the game plan well, leadership, all those things are great.

But on a fundamental level, every player has to be able to make, at minimum, plays that can continue the play.

And you have to make plays with the puck.

And we have a lot of guys in our lineup that really struggle to do that currently.

And if your intent is to evaluate this team as a Stanley Cup potential team, you better have players that can do it in traffic under high pressure in the playoffs against the league's best defenders.

And I really don't see it, and I haven't seen it

Pretty much most of the year, it gets masked, of course, because of the brilliance of, you know, David Leon Dreisaitl, Evan Bouchard, Nugent Hopkins at times, Zach Hyman.

I mean, we have some high, high-level skill.

But down...

Down our lineup, they're not NHL championship caliber players, and that's going to make it tough for us going forward, in my opinion.

Well, it's all about Connor Ingram right now.

And Chris said as much.

and you have to show confidence in him either even after a subpar performance not that Saturday night was subpar by any means but you have to there's a different latitude that you want to give your starting goalie so they have the confidence level to bounce back from from games like that and they realize they're the guy I mean I think that's probably why Chris

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