Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We have talked a bit about the playoffs, spoke to Mac T about the playoffs today. Road to the Cup for Sentinel Storage. Try four weeks free. Visit sentinelsstorage.ca for details. Yeah, by the way, so my first year, was 2008. I just concluded my 18th season as a broadcaster for the team. Your last year as head coach of the Edmonton Oilers was in 08-09. Are those two? I had to get out, Bob.
When you came in, there wasn't enough room for both of us. We both knew that. That's the one thing we could agree on. There just wasn't enough room for both of us.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the recent NHL playoffs discussed?
He's the type of guy the Oilers need, like, to bring some energy. I mean, Connor, for all the things that he does well, is just, he doesn't, he's not dripping energy.
energy outside of the way that he plays the game i mean he always so and and you need guys like that like i think cory perry was a little bit like that i got a couple different guys yeah they loved calvin pickard he was funny i know they had their ugly numbers and expected goals for i I always had time for Cal Picker.
He bailed us out of two playoffs that we never would have come close to winning those series if he came in and didn't play well. Right, so you're talking Vancouver and L.A. in back-to-back years. Yeah, yeah. And the guys love... I mean, I thought there was a chance we'd see him in this year's playoff because he's done it before. And, you know, I didn't mind his game.
Do you think, Craig, that sometimes teams play harder for one goalie as opposed to another?
Chapter 3: What insights does Craig MacTavish share about his time as a coach?
Well, I've never understood the mentality. But, you know, they cheer harder for one guy or the other. I mean, that's an indictment of you. As a person, your character, if you're, okay, we've got Stu's in there tonight. I'm not going to block as many shots or whatever.
Chapter 4: How does Craig MacTavish reflect on his broadcasting career?
I never understood that mentality, but, I mean... The team sees how hard he would work day to day in the practices and so forth. Unbelievable guy. Super popular. I mean, I don't deny that it happens.
He was 8-2 in the playoffs as an Oilers goaltender over the last two years, right? Amazing. Here's the thing. So he's a guy that it always seemed like they were trying to replace, but he did start the year this year. I'm going to give you another guy. And I know people say, oh, Stauffer, you're biased towards this player. The players respected this guy.
And by the time he was in the letter, and you know where I'm going, he was not as good as he was in Carolina or Calgary. Like, he was a legit third-line center in Calgary and Carolina. He was strictly a fourth-line center. But he had a little bit of juice in that room in the context. And that's Derek Ryan. Like, he was a veteran guy.
He was well ā You knew him well. I didn't know him or his character that well. But I can tell you that... He was a fiery competitor. Yeah. And I think, you know, he called a spade a spade in the locker room. It was kind of a sharp tongue probably, my guess would be.
Right. And you wouldn't, you know, you wouldn't think that a... And I'm not making a generalization here, but you wouldn't think that a Mormon hockey player would necessarily be the guy that would dig his heels in and, you know, hey, this is unacceptable and we can't play this way and we're better than this.
And you're sitting there looking at a guy playing eight or nine minutes and thinking, but they kept them in all the way, like all the way through the final. Well, he could win face-offs.
I mean, he was a useful player. Right, and he could help kill penalties. Yeah, yeah, he was a good penalty killer.
You know, obviously they missed Corey Perry. I don't know, and I mean this in all sincerity, I think Evander Kane got taken out of both Stanley Cup finals in both years. Like, he became a non-factor both years.
Well, the one year more than the other. The last year he was more impactful.
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Chapter 5: How does Craig MacTavish evaluate the current Oilers roster?
And that's why he enjoyed it so much.
It is five, oh, oh no, you didn't play in this game. It is, geez, I did not realize that Dotson played five more years in Russia after he left the Red Wings. It was in, yeah, Kitenberg, isn't that where you went?
No, Jaroslavl, who won it again this year. Yes, they won back-to-back years.
Yeah. You went to Jaroslavl. Jaroslavl. They went back-to-back. Apparently, they got a good goalie. Yeah, a really good goalie. They also have Maxime Bereshkin, who I tweeted out on Friday. I thought the Oilers were a good bet to sign. And today, the Oilers signed out of Finland. Akuratu. Akuratu, the brother of Atu. Aku instead of Atu, is that right? There you go. You got it.
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Well, Bob, on this date in 1985, in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Wayne Gretzky scores a first-period hat trick and adds a helper, while Paul Coffey had four assists en route to a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at Northlands Coliseum.
The order is Game 5 that year. Just walloped Philadelphia. The Flyers looked like they were playing in the 70s, and the Oilers looked like they were playing in the 90s in 1985, like they just smoked them. If you missed any of today's show, make sure to download and subscribe to the Oilers Now podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere you get your streaming audio.
Tomorrow's guests will include Elliot Friedman and Ryan Lawton. Tomorrow's show is a little bit fluid. Craig McTavish to wrap up MacTM Mondays for our friends at Contract Equipment, Canada's premium heavy equipment dealer with rental and sales. So we're in a holding pattern, like we're waiting for Vegas to allow teams to interview Bruce Cassidy. I think at some point that will happen.
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Chapter 6: What factors influence team dynamics and player performance?
And then you resurfaced. No, I went to Chicago. Chicago. Sorry. Yes. Chicago before Vancouver. Yeah. And then back. And then you came back as like the vice president of hockey ops. And then you took over from Tambolini and sometime in April of 2013, as I recall.
with scott housing oh let's go with that i have no idea it's kind of what i'm supposed to do here greg right so it is going to be an interesting does the coach need to do you have to have the new coach in play before you go out and uh resign uh you know some of your ufas or get into the free agent market what do you think I mean, I think they probably will.
Yeah, I think ideally it helps. But in terms of Connor Murphy, I think that I'd get him on a contract as soon as I could if it was reasonable. Because he was just a great fit here. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Craig, thanks for coming in the studio. Oh, it's always a pleasure, Bob. By the way, June 13th. Not always, but yeah. Yes, yes, we know what you're saying. You're booked June 13th, okay? Sounds good. An extra event with a mutual acquaintance of ours who, you know, occasionally buys lunch right at the Joey, right by where you and me live. So there you go. Race you back to the car.
Yes.
Great guy, hey? The best. You've got to explain this.
I see him in the gym a lot. You've never seen me there, do you?
No. You should, though. Wow, I'm doing 13,000.
Have you not seen like the... Yeah, no, you are losing weight. Your face looks quite a bit thinner than...
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Chapter 7: How does Craig MacTavish view the role of goaltending in the playoffs?
I can stand corrected here.
There is an Austin Mack with Alabama. There you go. What are the chances of pulling that off?
All that and Frankie Crowe. I'm going to watch the junior game tonight, too. I'm going to go watch Everett play. That DuPont kid's pretty damn good. He's good.
He's smooth. I saw him as a 13-year-old playing with Fernando Persani's son. Yeah. I said, this kid's going to make $100 million for fun.
Well, I said that once, too, about a guy, and he's in this year's draft, the guy I said it about. We'll see who. Keaton Verhoff, except Keaton was 6'4", and had only played defense.
Yeah, that DuPont is. He's like McCarr. He's going to be like McCarr. He was.
Do you know who he reminds me of? Zuboff might have been the most underrated defenseman of an era. What do you think?
He was pretty damn good, eh? Zuboff? Look everybody off. Nothing he couldn't do. Unbelievable passer. Fantastic hockey player. Awesome stuff, Mac T. Thanks for coming in the studio.
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