Oilers Legend Craig MacTavish (3/2/26)
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I mentioned it is MAC-T on Mondays coming up for contract equipment. Canada's premium heavy equipment dealer with rental and sales, Stan Bowman, live at 535. As we head off to the River Creek Resort and Casino hotline, the River Creek Resort and Casino open 24-7, 365. Excitement better than it is. Mac to you on Mondays for contract equipment. Hello, Craig. How are you doing? I'm doing good, Stoff. Thank you. All right. The Edmonton Oilers have acquired Connor Murphy, who Stan Bowman traded for. He traded Nicholas Sharmelson for him a number of years ago. Ended up being the longest-serving member of the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks retained 50% of the contract. Edmonton gave up a 20-28 second-round draft choice.
They have also made a sequence of moves. Maja Pani and Ragula to waivers yesterday. They cleared. They've been assigned to Bakersfield. They recalled Szymanski and Howard, consummated this deal and have subsequently sent Howard back down, meaning Szymanski likely will play tomorrow for Edmonton against the Ottawa Senators. Give me your... You said they needed a cycle stopper, Mac T, and I wanted a right shot D.
I know we both got what we wanted. I think, you know, I've talked a lot about size for the Stanley cup playoffs and Connor Murphy has a lot of the attributes that I think you need to have some success in the playoffs. I mean, the one thing that he is questionable and always has been with him, but he's always found a way to overcome it has been his foot speed. But, uh, He's got lots of experience. He's big. He's heavy. He can contribute and chip in offensively. He comes at a fairly marginal price when you factor in the contract that Chicago is going to absorb. I think it's a reasonable price. I questioned how much The Oilers, we're going to spend this year at the trade deadline because it hasn't been the banner year that we've had in the past where these decisions have been a lot easier.
But I think what the Oilers management group certainly understands is that You know, the Pacific Division is an opportunity. We could have a fairly easy opportunity to get to the conference finals. I mean, if you break it down now to the current standings today, you have the Oilers playing Anaheim, which I think would be fairly easy work for the Oilers, although it didn't look like it. Yeah, yeah. I just don't think they have the... The experience, I watched them play Calgary last night. The turnovers were laughable at times on both teams. And it looked a bit like a tennis game. Calgary takes it to Anaheim's blue line, turns it over. Anaheim transitions, gets to Calgary's blue line, turns it over. And it was just over and over and over again, I think.
You know, it was close to setting a record for the most amount of stoppages in an NHL game. So I see what everybody else sees on Anaheim. They have a lot of
budgeting talent coming up yeah i don't think they're nhl playoff ready for a team that's got uh as much as experience and firepower as the oilers have yeah i got a lot of respect for anaheim uh they've got two tandems there you know whether they play carlson with gochi and then uh mctavish it's never a bad name for a center uh mctavish with bennett seneca who's going to be a
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