Oilers Legend Craig MacTavish (3/9/26)

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

Hey, it's Bob Stauffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. It's 5.06 in oil country. Bob Stauffer with the Oilers down in Denver. Huge matchup tomorrow night against the league's best team, the Colorado Avalanche. Our spotlight conversation this hour is coming up with Craig McTavish. The Order Spotlight Conversation brought to you by our friends at Cowan Graphics. From fleet wraps to signage quality graphics solutions without compromise, visit cowan.ca. Keep texting us on the Ashley Fine Floors text line, 780-451-8800. Get the new floors you always wanted at Ashley Fine Floors, 143rd Street, 111th Avenue, open Monday to Saturday.

Bob Stauffer 0:46

Stan Bowman said he wanted to build a team. He wanted to help support Chris Knobloch. He went and traded for a third-line center, Jason Dickinson, and a second-pairing right shot D. Also, Colton Dock. Dock was involved in a five-on-five goal last night that helped the Oilers win the game. Didn't see a lot of ice time. Fourth line didn't see a lot of ice time. And I'm asking you for your thoughts on, Do the owners need to involve more players? And that's going to be the conversation point we go to next on the River Creek Resort Casino Hotline, the River Creek Resort Casino Excitement. Bet on it 24-7. For our friends at Contract Equipment, Canada's premium heavy equipment dealer with rental and sales, here is the former general manager and head coach of the Edmonton owners, a great third-line center himself back in the day.

Bob Stauffer 1:34

Back to you on Monday. This is Craig McTavish. Hello, Craig. How are you doing? very good Bob thanks good to have the boys get a much needed win last night must have felt a lot better getting on that plane last night after the game well there's been a lot of pressure and they went through a brutal stretch and they gave up way too many goals against and it wasn't all on the goalies we know that when the team won 16 straight games a couple years ago they gave up 24 goals against Okay. So they were playing pretty well defensively. They haven't come close to that. They can score. We know that they're tied for the second highest scoring team in the NHL. Stan Bowman went out and he added three players at the deadline.

Bob Stauffer 2:18

He brought in Connor Murphy, a right shot, second pairing D that's an excellent penalty killer. He brought in Jason Dickinson, a third line center that loves tough match, tough matchup minutes against good players and is an excellent penalty killer. As you know, Mac T Chicago had the best penalty killing in the NHL. Dickinson was their first center option and Murphy was their first pairing right D option. And he also added an energy forward and Colton doc. That's a six foot four kid that can skate and is not timid. He's an aggressive player. What did you think of the assessment or give me your assessment on the two acquisitions and how they could potentially help the Edmonton orders?

Craig McTavish 2:58

Well, we got bigger and stronger for sure. Um, And our penalty kill looks like it's going to be much improved with the addition of Dickinson and Murphy. Is it going to be enough to push us into the equation of the conversation with some of the best teams in the Western Conference? That's going to remain to be seen. I mean, a little... a little underwhelming given the assets we gave up, but the reality is for Stan and Jeff and the management team is that, you know, negative asset value players. And by that, I mean players that don't play to the level of their contract and you have to give something for other teams to take them. It's, it's, it's expensive. And, uh, as much as you'd like to add a higher profile player or two than, uh,

Craig McTavish 3:53

than what we did, the reality is that, you know, we couldn't. Those guys put in the work, and they do the work, and they explore all the options. And to me, Stan knows all three of these players really well, which I think is always great. uh a pretty significant benefit when you're doing a deal with a general manager that has controlled some of these players in the past um i've liked what i've seen of the competitiveness of colton dock i mean we're not going to add much to our offense but it doesn't look like we need to add too much more with uh