Craig MacTavish

...on the table, from the playersa point of view, was the a culture of the team,a which has been questioned again, just as it was when Craig MacTavish made his last speech as the Oilersa head coach. a Thata s frustrating for guys who take a...

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...Wilson is going anywhere soon (until after the Olympics) is it possible that the assistant coaches could be replaced by guys like Craig MacTavish or Mike Keenan that would only be defence coaches or power play coaches etc. This would give new...

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...Gagner, Patrick O'Sullivan and Andrew Cogliano. Those messages, echoes of ones delivered in past years by former head coach Craig MacTavish, are about how good offensive play flows from sound defensive work; about how critical it is to...

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...to produce for coach John Tortorella; and Edmonton's Dustin Penner, the power winger who was six feet under playing for former coach Craig MacTavish but is thriving with Pat Quinn behind the Oilers' bench. Crosby's production, at least on...

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He's kicking back and keeping busy with recreational pursuits, such as knocking golf balls around with deposed Oiler coach Craig MacTavish a couple of times recently in L.A. "I'm enjoying myself. My life is stress-free right now. No big...

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...nabbed him for an illegal stick one night last season. After coming out of the penalty box and scoring, Kovalchuk skated by Craig MacTavish and waved his blade in the coach's face. But he has since grown up. "When we put the C on him,...

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...face of the NHL. In fact, the last player to not wear a helmet was none other than former Edmonton Oiler defenseman and head coach, Craig Mactavish, who went helmet-less until 1997. Looking back, mandating helmets was a "no-brainer" (pardon...

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Edmonton Oilers fans were hard on former coach Craig MacTavish. Under his tenure, it was a constant mix-match of players, trying to find combinations that would bring the Oilers past a point where the team was a .500 hockey club. Eventually...

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...the conscious decision to play kids two years ago and he is living with the fallout from that decision, just as Craig MacTavish did before him. "Were they ready to play in the National Hockey League? Probably not. But they decided we were...

In this article: Pat Quinn, Sam Gagner, Mike Comrie, Shawn Horcoff, Oilers, Ales Hemsky, Dustin Penner, and Gilbert Brule