Craig MacTavish continues (9/28/26)

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Why did Mark Messier criticize the Oilers’ Mike Babcock hiring process?

Bob Stauffer 1:08

And I know it happened last week, but we'd be remiss without mentioning that your former teammate considered the greatest captain, one of the greatest captains in the history of the NHL. was critical of the Oider's decision to bring Mike Babcock and specific to The involvement of the players and said that he never and I found that and and I wanna preface this by saying I love Mark Messier. He was my favorite Oilers player of the nineteen eighties.

Craig MacTavish 1:34

Tough not to love when he put four Stanley Cup s rings on your fingers. Right. Right. Got a lot of uh five and event time for Mark, let me tell you. Let me tell you

Bob Stauffer 1:42

he helped you win four, but six overall. Uh I wore number eleven. I the where you drop the you you lift the leg up where while you shoot off the back foot. I I learned kick start the Harley. You're right, kick start the Harley, uh punch a guy first before you get punched, all that kind of stuff. I loved everything about Marc Messier. I found his comments interesting about the players having involvement in the coaching decision. decision and that's new, I'm like, well no it's not Mark because reputation precedes you like uh you know, Roger Nielsen, a sort of technocrat, quieter coach, was in New York City, did not last. And Mike Keenan, a hard nosed tough coach, got brought in in New York. Then Mark went to Vancouver.

Bob Stauffer 2:28

And I think it's a reflective on Vancouver, not on Mark, but it didn't go well for Mark in Vancouver. Tom Rennie was the coach, another sort of technical, soft spoken guy that didn't play and he gets replaced. Oh wait. uh by the same guy, by Mike Keenan. And as far as I'm concerned, you know what? I would listen to Marc Messier if I own the Rangers or if I own the Vancouver Canucks because dammit, he's Marc Massier. Just like if I were in Darryl Cates's shoes, I would listen to Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisidel because and Zach Hyman because those are three guys of the only team in the NHL that's got three current fifty goal scorers that scored fifty on one team. Still with uh team. What you think of Mark's comments uh pertaining to uh Well it's and hey, he's got it's it's his prerogative to speak his mind.

Bob Stauffer 3:15

I mean,

How do NHL teams weigh star players’ opinions when choosing a coach?

Craig MacTavish 3:19

Yeah, no, he's in the in the media and he's got an opinion and a strong opinion about uh how he feels about the hiring of Mike Babcock. I mean one thing I'll say is Mark's seldom wrong about his comments in hockey. I uh I hope he's wrong here, obviously. And uh Mark would probably share the same sentiment. He's he uh cheers for the orders. But uh when you've had a lot of success in a Career like Marx had and played for some specific leaders like Glenn Saylor, let's you know, was an incredible leader. Later a bit. Yeah. I mean, and Mike Keenan too, as well, for s some of his deficiencies and friend of mine, but I mean there were I I I can't understand how he continually won at all levels based on the s the style of coaching that he had.