Craig "MacT" MacTavish (born August 15, 1958) is the former ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. He played centre for 19 NHL seasons with the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues. MacTavish later coached the Oilers from 2000 to 2009. He has also served as assistant coach with the Rangers and Oilers. He was known for being the last NHL player to play without a helmet. He is...
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Craig "MacT" MacTavish (born August 15, 1958) is the former ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. He played centre for 19 NHL seasons with the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues. MacTavish later coached the Oilers from 2000 to 2009. He has also served as assistant coach with the Rangers and Oilers. He was known for being the last NHL player to play without a helmet. He is also remembered as the player who took the last faceoff for the New York Rangers in Game Seven of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals against the Vancouver Canucks with 2 seconds left and he and Mark Messier were the two Rangers who helped ensure the Rangers victory to deliver their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
MacTavish played two years of NCAA hockey with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, from 1977 to 1979. He was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft with their 9th pick, 153rd overall, and spent the next several years...
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