WFAN.com
The Islanders have to have John Tavares being John Tavares.
Or else, what’s the point?
The “franchise” has produced at well off a point-per-game pace so far this season, and that has to stop. He must instead become some facsimile of the player we all saw during the first round of last spring’s playoffs, when he emerged from the obscurity of NHL Brooklyn to command the league’s attention.
That John Tavares. The at times unstoppable John Tavares.
The unfortunate reality is the Islanders’ captain is being summoned to step to the forefront despite management doing next to nothing to help him.