Oilers Legend Craig MacTavish (9/21/26)
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Details at Rephase Magic dot ca. Bruce Kurlock will join us on Thursday. We will preview the Oiders game against the Vancouver Connecticut night. Could be A uh Jack Michaels referred to a shell lineup for that game. I think that's a fair assessment. We head off to the River Creek Resort in Casino Hotliner. Welcome back to the show for MACT on Mondays. Craig McTavich brought to you by Michael and the staff at Contract Equipment, Canada's premium heavy equipment dealer with rental and sales. Hello, MACT, how you doing?
Well good, Bob. You've got the faithful all riled up on uh c Canada American politics here coming into the season.
Well no, all I'm saying uh it's I I'm not riled up I I you know, I've said this to you before, Mac T, I don't care if you're uh a voter of the NDP, a voter of the Liberals, or a voter of the Conservatives, guess what? You can be an letters fan. What defines you in my mind is whether or not you're an idiot or not is if you have an appreciation or in the understanding of the nuance of Evan Bouchard's game. And Connor McDavid referenced Connor McDavid referenced that today. He goes, the people that don't get Bouchard don't watch hockey. That's what he ba they're they're not around here. So but uh the reason we bring this up is because the Oilers do have two games to start preseason against the Winnipeg Jets.
Brady Kachuk. Buck gone from the Ottawa Senators, Quinn Hughes gone from the Vancouver Canucks, and now Connor Hellebuck gone from Winnipeg, uh, all part of the US Olympic program. Now Hughes was traded before the Olympic gold medal uh game with Canada, but the other two guys are gone three Canadian markets, three their best player in all three markets, uh, out of those respective organizations. That's why we're discussing it. I mean
And you've got w uh Brady Tichuk's mom, who's a staunch Winnipegger. Yes. Uh met by uh Brady's dad, Walt uh Tichuk. And uh I mean I I d I don't think it has anything to do with uh with Canada for the Tichuck family, that's for sure. But and uh I mean there's a lot of turmoil politically with the Canadian American relationship. But I will say this and uh uh I spent a lot of time in the in the US and there's certainly way more similarities than there are differences. I agree. I agree. Gener generally in my uh uh experience uh dealing with people and they're so So why do He did. Incredibly welcoming of the Canadians.
So wh why did first Matthew and then Brady request trades out of their I mean, at the end of the day, Matthew wasn't gonna sign an extension out of Calgary. That's that is a extended version of a trade request and Brady outright asked for a trade request.
Well I just think the i i it's the cycle of the teams that they're requesting a trade from. And uh Calgary didn't look like they were very close at uh at that point when uh Matthew left and s similarly in Ottawa I I think I mean I the thing that struck me when we were interviewing Brady To Chuck uh a and uh Matthew to Chuk uh during their draft years is how incredibly uh open they were and welcoming and would love to go and play in Canada. I mean, Matthew played in London and had great success there, but I mean b those guys they they they they're hockey players. They want to win and uh they felt like their best opportunity was to leave. And you certainly can't argue Matthew's decision and based on uh how loaded Florida looks on paper going into this
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