If Tavares had any guts whatsoever, he'd have gone to center ice and put his hand to his ear to listen to the boos. He gets booed all night, every night in that barn and then when he makes the boo birds eat their crow, he raises his stick to them.
Sometimes being classy is just being soft. There's no passion there.
And that the team managed to lose 45 seconds into OT is just more of what plagues us. They got the tie and JT's 1000th point, it was mission accomplished and then 45 seconds of lazy BS later, the game ended in defeat. They only care about individual accomplishments, once they've got the milestones they pack it up and lose their focus and drive.