According to this article he doesn't know what to think at this point. Gone are the days that he kept the Oilers from handing the Ducks a lottery pick, gone are the days that he single handily won games for the Oilers early in the year while the team in front of him looked lost.
Mathieu Garon came to the team and has been a very good trooper for the Oilers, however he hasn't gotten the "Roli treatment". You know, the treatment that if you've been named the starter and suck you keep getting starts while a superior goalie is winning games?
It could be that Mactavish learned from his mistake last year of going to the outhouse for well water, but IMO that would be giving the coach too much credit. Garon was our best goaltender in the preseason, then he won our first 3 games of the year. Since then he's been cast aside and left for dead.
The coach could be putting new GM Steve Tambellini in a tough spot. Roloson is a near 40 year old goaltender, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers could be looking for a pay raise after next season. If Mathieu Garon has been alienated by the way that he's been treated, Tambellini could be forced to acquire a #1 goaltender while also negotiating deals for a number of RFA's and F Erik Cole.
A player that by all accounts loved Edmonton last year (hell his wife even loved it there!). Garon maybe wishing that he could hop on the next plane out of town and never come back because of the coaching situation.
The city has enough of a false negative aura hovering around it without having a ranting and raving coach that calls out his players in the media and turns to his favorites every chance that he gets while not caring about whose feathers he ruffles. Perhaps if MacT ever became a GM, he'd realize that he wasn't exactly helping his GM's cause with his antics, and I hope that the new GM calls him on it.
