Later in the OHL season and playoffs, I've been sharing instances where he's not on the scoreboard, but he actually helps his team lead to a score. He's winning scrums along the corner or boards, he's preventing pucks from leaving the offensive zone, subtle picking while scrumming, he's driving to the net to cause defenders to pay more attention to him, or he's winning faceoffs that leads to a quick goal two passes later.
Defensively, oddly enough, his line doesn't stay on the defensive zone all that much b/c once the puck is on their hands, they bring the puck up and live on the offensive side. McTavish-Winterton are such a good pair for the Bulldogs.
During the playoffs, McTavish looked tired and in a gm 6 OHL championship game, McTavish was just worn down. The reason behind this are two factors, one was he was being double shifted and he was playing through injuries. That game 6 where he was just worn down is true b/c he put the team on his back in game 5 to win game 5. Also, games 5 and 6 were back to back games. There was a day break between game 6 and game 7. McTavish had a 3-point night (2g, 1a), +4 rating, and went 23/40 at the faceoff dot.
If there is one thing I want McTavish to improve on this off-season and onwards is his endurance. He probably won't be double-shifted as often in the NHL, but he can be more effective longer. One aspect about McTavish, with respect to endurance, is he knows when to get off the ice and not be a liability on the ice by being tired for an extended shift that could have been avoided. I kept noticing that how often he changes in games.
