Confirmed with Link: Blues Hire Former Blue MacTavish as Assistant Coach

[Linkens Mastery]

MacTavish joins Blues as assistant coach | St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced today the team has named former Blue Craig MacTavish as assistant coach.MacTavish, who played his final two NHL seasons with the Blues (1995-97), brings over 10 years of coaching experience to the staff.

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[Xerloris]

After his shit show in Edmonton I'm not sure I'm happy with this.

 

[Blueston]

Don't love it.

 

[Stealth JD]

I guess he’s able to leave Canada and is clear of his own demons?

 

[PostBradMalone]

I guess he’s able to leave Canada and is clear of his own demons?

Uhm he was an NHL coach and player for a very long time before this and crossed the border lots of times.

 

[Stealth JD]

Uhm he was an NHL coach and player for a very long time before this and crossed the border lots of times.

I’ve forgotten him since ‘95 when he was skating helmet-less at the Kiel Center.

 

[BlueKnight]

MEH!!!!!!!!

 

[Blueston]

Interestingly enough, MacTavish and Montgomery were teammates on the Flyers.

 

[TheDizee]

I like this move.

 

[rumrokh]

Big shrug. Edmonton was a shitshow that massively transcended MacTavish while he was there, so I don't have a good handle on his skills as a coach. Not a big fan of fueling the good old boys club cycle, but at the very least, he was a good defensive forward as a player and basically every team could use a bit of an injection in their defensive commitment for forwards.

 

[buches gooches]

Gross

 

[Memento]

Chiarelli was bad enough, but a literal murderer in MacTavish? No thanks.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

The front office has accumulated great talent at that spot for a while. They’ve earned the benefit of the doubt from me.

 

[Xerloris]

Chiarelli was bad enough, but a literal murderer in MacTavish? No thanks.

Lay off the shit. He didn't intentionally kill anyone and to talk about that shit almost 40 years later as if the guy didn't play for us before anyway is absurd.

 

[CoMoBlues]

Not a bad move. Maybe he can help coach up Thomas and other youngsters on how to win more faceoffs.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Yeah, but he never wore a helmet!!

 

[Celtic Note]

I just spit up.

“But why?”

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Reading through this I'm getting memories of the reactions from the Montgomery signing.

Edit: not from the board members, but people I knew in real life hated the Montgomery signing

 

[Blueston]

Reading through this I'm getting memories of the reactions from the Montgomery signing.

Edit: not from the board members, but people I knew in real life hated the Montgomery signing

Monty seemed like great hiring at time. MacT? When has he last coached? I am skeptical, but DA has been right much, much more often than wrong, so he absolutely deserves benefit of doubt.

 

[Memento]

Lay off the shit. He didn't intentionally kill anyone and to talk about that shit almost 40 years later as if the guy didn't play for us before anyway is absurd.

I don't care. I abhor drunk drivers - and before you accuse me of hypocrisy, I don't very much care for Ryan O'Reilly off the ice myself. Nobody holds a f***ing gun to the heads of drunk drivers and makes them drink and drive. I lost a close friend to the actions of a drunk driver, so yeah, I really hate this move.

 

[simon IC]

I admit I am not overly excited about this.

 

[mk80]

Monty seemed like great hiring at time. MacT? When has he last coached? I am skeptical, but DA has been right much, much more often than wrong, so he absolutely deserves benefit of doubt.

2020-21 in the Swiss League according his Elite Prospects staff profile. Craig MacTavish at eliteprospects.com


Overall I'm kind of 50/50 on the hire. It's not too thrilling, and although I'm glad to see Monty get another head coaching gig (and thankfully one unlike Dallas where we don't have to see him a lot), it's still going to be a big loss on the bench with him gone.

 

[MortiestOfMortys]

Lol this is so bad. Dude is a dinosaur, why would we do this when we have Bannister or Tkaczuk that have been paying their dues for years now.

 

[Joelhead]

So we have no patience/forgiveness for drunk drivers. Where do we stand on texting drivers? Eating drivers?
Tired drivers?
Old drivers?
Just bad drivers?

 

[Memento]

So we have no patience/forgiveness for drunk drivers. Where do we stand on texting drivers? Eating drivers?
Tired drivers?
Old drivers?
Just bad drivers?

I can forgive tired and old drivers because they literally did not choose to be that way and both of them may have to go places.

I cannot forgive drunk/high and/or distracted drivers because they have a choice. They always have a choice. They could call a taxi to pick them up or have a friend be the designated driver, put the phone down and turn it off instead of checking that one text, choose to eat before driving or after they get to their destination.