Fresh off his latest All-Star appearance, John Tavares played his final January game of the season on Tuesday. Too bad, because January is Tavares’ favorite month of the regular season.
Tuesday was Tavares’ 96th game in January out of the 558 he’s played in his career and his 46 goals and 105 points entering the game were the most in any month — next closest for the captain is October, in which he has 34 goals in 71 games.
And this January was no different. Tavares had eight goals and five assists in the 11 January games coming into Tuesday and he’d done all that without scoring a point in the first three games of the month.