News Article: MacT gets into shouting match with fan, insists success is coming

[rasarhdasd]

EDMONTON - Craig MacTavish knows better. But the GM of the Edmonton Oilers managed to get himself in a shouting session with a fan outside the Oilers dressing room Tuesday night.

“Ah, the usual stuff, I’d just had enough,” said the former player, coach and first-year general manager of the short-lived shouting session.

“It was not a good night to have it,” MacTavish added of the incident after a 5-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues.

While the GM watched the game in the press box, he entered the dressing room from the front near where the players return from the ice.

It’s amazing there have been so few incidents in the area. The Oilers are the only team in pro sports that effectively has to walk through a bar six times a game to get on and off the ice.

“It’s not a good setup under the current circumstances,” said MacTavish, who walked the gauntlet as an Oilers glory gang player and eight seasons as the head coach.

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[SeriousBusiness]

Literally no details about what was said between the fan and MacT. Thanks Terry Jones.

 

[Playa Hejda]

Are these the men that can be trusted to run a NHL hockey team?

 

[Terrifyer]

The headline was about a shouting match. The first sentence was dedicated to that, the rest was an interview with Mac T, and nothing to do about the incident. Holy christ, the media in this city is absolutely spineless and pathetic.

 

[Playa Hejda]

Literally no details about what was said between the fan and MacT. Thanks Terry Jones.

Typical Edmonton sports media. Hints at the problem but the story becomes an apology for hinting.

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

Fan: "MAKE SOME TRADES!"

MacT: "GEEZ, IM TRYING BUT ITS SO HARD! I BET YOU CANT DO ANY BETTER!"

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Disappointed in the article

Disappointing thread

 

[Starbuds]

Insists success is coming? Anything is more successful than what we are seeing now. So, he is absolutely correct. Eventually someday it will move out of absolute failure (I hope).

This tension with fans at Rexall is great. Something actually somewhat entertaining!

 

[OilerTyler]

Gotta respect the fan for saying something to MacT's face. Someone has to humble these losers in management and none of them are going to listen any other way. Too bad Lowe wasn't there with MacT. If this fan rattled MacT hard enough to get him yelling Lowe might have literally exploded.

 

[Da McBomb]

Makes me wonder if we'll see the same close fan access to the players/dressing room in the new Arena.

 

[oilers83]

Ah!!! Edmonton Sports Media at its finest. Misleading title, with no substance, but a guarantee that after (insert any player, coach, gm) is chased out of town they'll write piece absolutely bashing them.

 

[oilexport]

nice tag team boys, Lowe goes after the tier 2's, Mac-T takes on the tier 1's...next, they will send Joey Moss after the media??

 

[T-Funk]

@fatterryjones leaves a little to be desired in that story. Are we sure it wasn't just Jason Chimera?

 

[The Nuge]

Makes me wonder if we'll see the same close fan access to the players/dressing room in the new Arena.

I sure hope so. It's basically the only good thing about Rexall

 

[Del Preston]

Just give it a few more years, guys. Like eight or ten.

 

[Patch101]

I'll take away a few positives, sounds like he's working hard to find the right deal, and he understands that we need size on the roster. I'm not like most on here, and I like how MacT has been so far. He's a ton pro-active (rather than non-active, like Tambo). He's made a great move, ok moves, and a couple questionable/bad moves. The fact that's he's looking for size, and unhappy himself shows a few things.

 

[OiledUp]

What keeps on bothering me is that MacT and Eakins goes on about these improvements they see but they don't really give any hard evidence. MacT says he sees development, that "We’re seeing core players becoming much more competitive in difficult match-ups." But where is the hard evidence? This Bagdad Bob style of just saying "this is the way it is" and then hope people will just eat it up isn't working anymore. What are MacT and Eakins seeing that the fans are missing? They are basically claiming they know hockey at a level the fans could never understand. And sure while they're likely more knowledgeable than the average fan, to believe you're outsmarting every hockey fan in a hockey crazy town like Edmonton is plain arrogance.
A truly knowledgeable person knows there's always someone out there who is smarter.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Team record of the previous four seasons: 30th, 30th, 29th and 24th. It looks like this year will be another finish in the 26th-to-30th range. How does Lowe keep his job? Where is the accountability when it comes to Kevin Lowe? Head coaches keep getting axed, a couple new GMs in that time span, and we're still getting nowhere. Lowe is in a position to overlook those positions and if they fail it also falls on him because he's the one who has a huge say in who's hired in those roles. Unbelievable; this organization is such a ****ing joke.

 

[Dorian2]

Sure glad one of the Oilers is showing some gumption!

 

[Tarus]

All that ****-talking about Tambo on his way out, and he'll end up with a worse record than any of Tambo's years with his first season as a "bold" general manager. Now he's getting into it with fans.

I'd feel bad for Mact if I didn't dislike him so much

 

[Tom Brady]

Terry Jones that fat *** looking to stir some **** up.

 

[The Human Torch]

Terry Jones is quite possibly the worst sports reporter on the face of the planet.

 

[Groucho]

Not that I'm defending Terry Jones here, but it says if the first Mac T quote "just the usual stuff" - so either TJ wasn't present for it & MacT wasn't willing to go into it, or it probably wasn't stuff you can print in the newspaper...

 

[BobDobolina]

Doesn't sound like much. How I wish this team was in a state where stuff like this would make major headlines

 

[ManByng]

at least the reporter is realizing this team needs some size to be able to compete with bigger Western conference teams like the Sharks, Blues, Ducks and Kings....i am worried that MacT doesn't get this and that he'd trade Gagner and acquire another 5'9" player to compliment Arco!