Bryan Trottier lives near Pittsburgh and has not been an Islander since 1990, but he said that he and many of his former teammates continue to root for the team in general, and a certain player in particular.
“We hope [John] Tavares stays with us forever and dies an Islander,” Trottier said of the captain and free-agent-to-be Tuesday night at a Paley Center event in Manhattan to mark the NHL’s 100th anniversary. “It just should be . . . He wears the ‘C ‘so well.”
Trottier recalled an Islanders-Wild game in St. Paul, Minnesota, last month that his son and grandchildren attended.