If today is John Tavares’ last game in a New York Islanders uniform, it’s a sporting tragedy of epic proportions. It sounds like he doesn’t want that to be so but also, like so many Islanders fans, he wants management to make a convincing case that it shouldn’t be so.
Who knows. In any case, a point came up about the NHL’s tiebreaker “play-in” game #83 if the Flyers and Panthers end up tied in all tiebreakers at the end of the season: Do the stats from Game 83 count as regular season stats, or playoff stats?