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C Mason McTavish - Peterborough Petes, OHL (2021, 3rd, ANA)

Brock said:
McTavish played mostly the wing last year as an OHL rookie, so that shouldn't be a problem for him.
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Interesting, thanks. I didn't know. I somehow always thought of him as a natural Center. Olten could sure use some more scoring from their wingers.

Would be interesting to see if that's where they use him or if they still move Chiriaev to the wing. Could be a bit of both.

In any way, happy for the player that it finally seems to work out. Othmann, I think, does benefit a lot from turning pro. Playing on the same team, the two could push each other even further.
 
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Peterborough Petes to loan Mason McTavish to pro team in Switzerland

It's finally happening. Pretty good article.

Apparently Olten was working Swiss authorities hard to get McTavish over ever since he got held up trying to board that plane to Switzerland. Sadly, it didn't work. Othmann was luckier because he's 18 and has a Swiss passport. Looks like it will finally work for McTavish as well when he turns 18 next week.

Olten is gonna be an interesting team to watch with those two on the roster. Othmann does receive a lot of icetime. Played his first game as 13th forward but has been their nr.2 winger playing in all situation since game 3 or 4 I believe. Looking forward to seeing where McTavish is gonna fit in.
 
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Hinterland said:
EHCO-Sportchef Marc Grieder: «Ich wusste, worauf ich mich einlasse»

Olten GM says that if there's no OHL play, it's still their goal to have McTavish ready to play by the end of January when he turns 18.
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Hinterland said:
Peterborough Petes to loan Mason McTavish to pro team in Switzerland

It's finally happening. Pretty good article.

Apparently Olten was working Swiss authorities hard to get McTavish over ever since he got held up trying to board that plane to Switzerland. Sadly, it didn't work. Othmann was luckier because he's 18 and has a Swiss passport. Looks like it will finally work for McTavish as well when he turns 18 next week.

Olten is gonna be an interesting team to watch with those two on the roster. Othmann does receive a lot of icetime. Played his first game as 13th forward but has been their nr.2 winger playing in all situation since game 3 or 4 I believe. Looking forward to seeing where McTavish is gonna fit in.
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I like this a lot for him. Making the most out of an unideal situation, thanks for the update!
 
Eishockey: Das Carbis-Projekt ist gescheitert: Der Stürmer verlässt den EHC Olten per sofort | Oltner Tagblatt

In a surprising development, Olten and Daniel Carbis agreed on a mutual contract termination, allowing Carbis to return to La Chaux-de-Fonds where he went almost PPG over the last three seasons. He was expected to be the teams nr.2 winger in Olten and even better those numbers, playing with Knelsen/Nunn. Instead, he got continously demoted and scored just 13 points in 33 games which is good for just 7th on the team. He lost his spot on the top line even before Othmann's arrival but he took Othmann's spot in the last game. May have been one last try to make it work.

Based on this, expect McTavish to play a lot and get opportunities rather quickly once he settled in...which may take a few games. Both him and Othmann should have spots in Olten's top6.

Mason McTavish in Olten angekommen - News - EHCO

McTavish is in Olten. Practiced with the team this morning...only 3h after landing in Zürich. Olten plays two road games tomorrow and Thursday followed by a home game on Saturday to round out the week. Coaches say they don't know yet if they wanna play him tomorrow or Thursday but I can't see them scratching him now that Carbis is gone. It may be in a limited role but I think he's gonna play tomorrow...
 
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Somehow, Ticino Rockets won 4-1. (anyone hitting on that bet must be rich now:laugh:)
No broadcast and TOI not out yet but McTavish apparently only played few shifts. He did have at least one shot on goal at EV though. Also played on the nr.1 PP-unit that gave up a shorthander though according to the liveticker I read it was an undetected foul on Oltens lone defender out there that caused the goal against.
 
Small sample size but I like what I see from McTavish. Right now playing his 2nd game as 4th line Center and scored his first point in this one. My stream is rather bad as there are no replays available but to me it looked like he scored a goal on a very nice shot so I was surprised to see him not get a point on that play. There was a scoring change though and he now has the primary assist on that goal. It didn't look like there was a deflection to me but camera angle was far from ideal so it's probably correct now. I think the club is doing his own broadcast which is usually much better but that will only become available after the game as the livestream is for season ticket holders only.

I'm most impressed with how strong and confident he is with the puck. He really likes to have the puck on his stick and his zone exits are what jumps out immediately when watching him. He's not the best skater but he's very good at finding open ice and exiting the zone with the puck on his stick even through the middle when there seems to be little space. I think his line only got caved in once because he's very good at exiting the zone and finding his wingers with good first passes. They don't get a lot of ice time and they're not creating a lot of scoring chances but they have the puck a lot and spend a lot of time in the offensive zone. One of his wingers was named the teams best player last game and they have one of just two goals in this one. The team is, for whatever reason, playing very poorly right now but his line is certainly getting the job done.
 
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Here's the clubs broadcast I mentioned. Goal at 43mins in this stream and they show additional replays during the intermission at 1h10mins. Nice shot.
 
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Is he still buried on the fourth line or has he started to move up the lineup and how's he looking ? @Hinterland
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Olten is in a whole lot of trouble. I think they won one game in about a month, no win after 60mins and they lost 8 straight. That came after they beat the leader 5-1. In my view they have the best roster so this was a tragedy. Then the news came out that the club opted out of the contract with the currently 2nd best scorer, Evgeni Chiriaev. He'll have to leave the club after this season. Apparently, he refused to accept a reduced salary and the club can't afford him anymore. Him refusing to accept a pay cut isn't surprising because he's playing with a Swiss license and is currently even outscoring one of Olten's imports, Dion Knelsen, as well as other imports across the league. It looks as if covid has impacted Olten's finances more than other teams, particularly Visp, a club sponsered by Lonza. Lonza is currently producing covid vaccines for Moderna so money doesn't really matter there and that's apparently where Chiriaev is gonna play next season. The weird thing about this story is though that Olten did sign one of the leagues top defenders as well as other good players for next season and also added depth to the roster for the remainder of this season. Confusing situation. Also, the GM fired himself as Assistant coach and hired a new one to assist his Swedish coach.

McTavish played one game as 13th forward, then two as 4C. After scoring his first point in his 3rd game he then got promoted to 1LW, taking Othmann's spot alongside the two imports. Othmann is still playing well but has become rather unlucky and seems so bitter about it that he's now collecting PIM instead of points:laugh:
McTavish then played 4 games with Nunn and Knelsen and scored two goals with them. The last one of those, McTavish's 7th for Olten, the team finally won, beating last placed Winterthur 5-2. Before that game, Olten announced the return of Stanislav Horansky, another player with a Swiss license, who dominated the league playing on a line with their two imports last season. Horansky didn't play against Winterthur but he replaced McTavish on that top line in today's game. Essentially, Olten does have two top lines now though because Othmann and McTavish are now playing together, centered by Chiriaev, the teams nr.2 scorer I mentioned above. In today's game, McTavish scored his 4th point but it didn't come with his new line but when he took a shift with his previous line, the two imports. McTavish averaged a bit over 13:09 mins over the 8 games he played but his ice time is trending upwards. He's also on the teams top power play unit and has been since game 1, averaging over 3mins per game. Unfortunately didn't get any PP-points yet though.




Here's today's game, if you wanna watch. Olten won again so they now have two wins after that terrible cold streak. On the broadcast they also show his 2nd goal for Olten he scored on a rebound in the previous game at 6:40. His first goal came in the game before, his 3rd on top line.

Othmann: 29 GP, 7 G, 8 A, 15 P, +/- 0, 60 PIM, 15:08 TOI/GP, 02:55 PP TOI/GP
McTavish: 8 GP, 2 G, 2 A, 4 P, -1, 2 PIM, 13:09 TOI/GP, 03:04 PP TOI/GP



I hope the two top prospects will continue to play together. With Chiriaev they got a pretty good linemate and this could be an interesting line to watch, especially come playoff time. I hope they'll be able to finish the season with Olten. OHL probably won't start before April? Swiss League playoff final series is scheduled to start at the end of April so it could just about work out depending on how far Olten can get in those playoffs.
 
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Also, he had 6 shots in this game alone and got robbed by the goalie at least on that one PP-chance from the slot. Over those 8 games he played he has 22 SOG but 15 of them from the slot which is a very good ratio. Othmann's ratio isn't quite that good but he's got 90 shots over the 29 games he played. So they're getting a lot of looks and are probably also a bit unlucky right now. At the moment, I do like McTavish a lot better and the coaches also seem to trust him more because they're now starting to play McTavish over Othmann on the PK. I'd expect Othmann to bounce back though once he gets over the frustration of things not going his way over the last few weeks.
 
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Horansky injured after just one game played for Olten so McTavish was back on top line with the imports today and scored a hattrick though two of the goals came on the PP. Was a 9-2 home win vs last placed Winterthur but after Olten's horrid losing streak and Horansky's injury they'll take that one for sure. Also, score was just 4-2 after 40'. Good for McTavish, too who was all over this game even before scoring his goals. McTavish now has 7 points (5 goals and 2 primary assists) in 9 games played for Olten.

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McTavish scored his goals Nr.7 and 8 tonight in a 6-0 win vs the local rivals of Langenthal. McTavish also had a goal in the previous game.

I think Langenthal had Oltens number recently and also played the much better season. They're sitting in 3rd place with 90 points whereas Olten has just 68 points and is trying to avoid pre playoffs. Thanks to this surprising win and all other teams fighting for 5th and 6th place losing today, Olten is now in 5th place but have 4 teams chasing them with 3 or less points behind. Last game of the regular season is on Sunday. 1st-6th place qualified for playoffs, 7th-10th place to play pre playoffs. Winners of the two best of 3 series will be able be added to playoff bracket.

Curious to see how MacTavish and Othmann are gonna do in the playoffs.


EHCO - «Ich bin froh, kann ich hier wieder Eishockey spielen»: Mason McTavish über seinen ersten Monat in Olten | Oltner Tagblatt

Here's an interview with MacTavish...let me know if I should translate...
 
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Seems like he should be moving up to the NLA with Zug. His Olten teammate and fellow countryman Othmann ( also 2021 draft eligible ) could be joining Bern as well but haven't seen full confirmation on this.

 
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Seems like he should be moving up to the NLA with Zug. His Olten teammate and fellow countryman Othmann ( also 2021 draft eligible ) could be joining Bern as well but haven't seen full confirmation on this.

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Note that these are just B licences though. They're still under contract with Olten (though of course just on loan from their OHL teams).
In Switzerland though where many clubs have affiliations there's also the so called B-licence so teams that don't have affiliations with other teams from different leagues can still loan their players to other teams or loan players from other teams should they need any. So the teams that still have B-licenses left tend to hand them out ahead of playoffs in order to have depth. Olten actually has a few players on B-licences already playing for them and also has players loaned to lower tier teams on B-licences.

Both players will still finish the season with Olten unless their OHL team needs them back earlier. I hope that that's not gonna be the case though. Would be interesting to see them play playoffs, especially if they see NL action should Olten's season end early.
Sorry if you already knew this, just wanted to explain as this probably wasn't clear for everybody.

Last round of the Swiss League's regular season to start in 2,5 hours so later today we'll know if Olten has to play pre playoffs or not. Should Olten avoild pre playoffs, that will earn them a 10 days break. Swiss League playoffs don't start until 17th of march while NL regular season won't finish until 5th of april. Zug will play 4 games over those 10 days. Bern is gonna play 5 games so those may be opportunities for Othmann and McTavish to see NL action in the regular season already. Remains to be seen if Olten and the two NL-clubs are looking to go there or not. It's theory anyway because should Olten lose today they'll need luck to avoid pre playoffs.

Btw, McTavish scored all of his goals from the slot and I think all but one or two them were either deflections or rebounds.
Funny, because I saw McTavish as more of a playmaker with a great shot and this is also how he played the first few games. He adjusted his game after being moved to top line LW though. I was sceptical when they started using him as front of the net guy on the PP as that's about the last slot where I'd have used him but he's been an absolute force there not just because of the goals he scored but also just by causing havoc and not allowing goalies to track pucks.

Also, Timo Helbling, recently retired stay at home defender and former Swiss international with a lot of NL and AHL experience who also played a few NHL games is constantly praising McTavish for his physicality. I haven't really seen it as much as he does but Helbling has become a well respected analyst with the TV-network broadcasting most hockey games here in Switzerland and he's been on Olten's club TV, too.
 
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Note that these are just B licences though. They're still under contract with Olten (though of course just on loan from their OHL teams).
In Switzerland though where many clubs have affiliations there's also the so called B-licence so teams that don't have affiliations with other teams from different leagues can still loan their players to other teams or loan players from other teams should they need any. So the teams that still have B-licenses left tend to hand them out ahead of playoffs in order to have depth. Olten actually has a few players on B-licences already playing for them and also has players loaned to lower tier teams on B-licences.

Both of them will still finish the season with Olten unless their OHL team needs them back earlier. I hope that that's not gonna be the case though. Would be interesting to see them play playoffs, especially if they see NL action should Olten's season end early.
Sorry if you already knew this, just wanted to explain as this probably wasn't clear for everybody.

Last round of the Swiss League's regular season to start in 2,5 hours so later today we'll know if Olten has to play pre playoffs or not. Should Olten avoild pre playoffs, that will earn them a 10 days break. Swiss League playoffs don't start until 17th of march while NL regular season won't finish until 5th of april. Zug will play 4 games over those 10 days. Bern is gonna play 5 games so those may be opportunities for Othmann and McTavish to see NL action in the regular season already. Remains to be seen if Olten and the two NL-clubs are looking to go there or not. It's theory anyway because should Olten lose today they'll need luck to avoid pre playoffs.

Btw, McTavish scored all of his goals from the slot and I think all but one or two them were either deflections or rebounds.
Funny, because I saw McTavish as more of a playmaker with a great shot and this is also how he played the first few games. He adjusted his game after being moved to top line LW though. I was sceptical when they started using him as front of the net guy on the PP as that's about the last slot where I'd have used him but he's been an absolute force there not just because of the goals he scored but also just by causing havoc and not allowing goalies to track pucks.

Also, Timo Helbling, recently retired stay at home defender and former Swiss international with a lot of NL and AHL experience who also played a few NHL games is constantly praising McTavish for his physicality. I haven't really seen it as much as he does but Helbling has become a well respected analyst with the TV-network broadcasting most hockey games here in Switzerland and he's been on Olten's club TV, too.
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Interesting and good to know. Might be kind of selfish but I'm kind of hoping that Olten does not continue on so McTavish and Othmann have a chance to play NLA hockey :nod:
 
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Interesting and good to know. Might be kind of selfish but I'm kind of hoping that Olten does not continue on so McTavish and Othmann have a chance to play NLA hockey :nod:
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They're already qualified for pre playoffs. As I've explained, it's just a question whether Olten can avoid pre playoffs or not. I've uploaded the standings and today's games if you wanna check them out.

Also note that it's by no means certain that they'd get into playoff games with the NL-teams. NL-teams have their rosters set so they're not usually gonna play their B-licences in playoff games, certainly not those who never played for them before. If it's somebody who was with them during regular season that's a different story but I wouldn't expect Othmann and McTavish to be more than depth players covering for potential injuries. So if they could get a few NL-games in during that 10 days break Olten could earn today that would help their chances of getting playing time during NL-playoffs.
It's not much different than in the NHL, really. NHL teams aren't usually gonna play AHLers or other prospects in playoffs unless they have to or unless those guys played for them before.

Also, NL pre playoffs don't start until 7th of April, playoffs not until 13th of April. SL quarterfinals will get played ahead of that. As you can see in my 3rd upload, Zug has dominated regular season. They're not likely to change their lineup to get McTavish in unless they absolutely have to. Othmann's chances with Bern may be a bit better but they have to qualify for pre playoffs first.
 

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Olten with a 4-5 SO loss today vs Thurgau and that was enough to secure 5th place. They avoid pre playoffs and will play a best of 7 series vs 4th placed Sierre starting March 17th. Will be interesting to see if McTavish or Othmann could potentially see NL action during that break ahead of Olten's playoffs.

Btw, McTavish scored another goal today. Both him and Othmann were amongst Olten shooters in the shootout but they both failed to score there.

McTavish finished the regular season with 9 goals and 2 assists over 13 games. His shooting percentage was ridiculously high at almost 24%. Now you could argue that that's just luck and nowhere near sustainable but he actually did fire 30 shots from the slot over those 13 games. 2,31 per game which is good for 5th leaguewide if you only include those with 10+ games played.
 
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7 Tage Quarantäne für den EVZ | EV Zug - Die offizielle Website

Remains to be seen if or how this affects McTavish and his chances of seeing NL-action but EV Zug has 4 regular season games postponed due to two covid infections amongst players. They can't play until March 18th. Pre playoffs to start April 7th and though Zug is leading the league and can therefore avoid those pre playoffs, I'd like to think they still need to play all 52 games until then which means 10 games in 18 or 19 days.
 
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