Lou Lamoriello pretty much knows what to expect when John Tavares makes his return to Long Island on Thursday. And he’s asking – pleading even – for fans to reconsider.
Tavares, who comes back to NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum for the first time since he chose the Toronto Maple Leafs over the team that drafted him, is likely in for a long and loud night of boos, the result of a somewhat contentious offseason where fans thought their longtime captain had abandoned them. Not so, Lamoriello said in an interview on WFAN’s Joe & Evan Tuesday morning.
“He had every right to make the decision that he did to go and to go to free agency and I respect that,” the Islanders president and general manager said.