Tavares considered Bruins 'quite a bit' before signing with Maple Leafs

[Mr Tadakichi]

Article here

Pretty interesting. I wonder what it would have taken for them to get Tavares.

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[CupInSIX]

Article here

Pretty interesting. I wonder what it would have taken for them to get Tavares.

Can't wait to hear in 2 years how Tavares considered Seattle 'quite a bit' before demaning 11x7 from Dubas.

 

[Isaac Nootin]

Article here

Pretty interesting. I wonder what it would have taken for them to get Tavares.

Moving TD Garden to Toronto.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

it's amazing how far the conspiracy to portray Tavares as someone who didn't lie and betray the Islanders is going. Now even Boston's coach is in on it

 

[ottawa]

Tavares is such an idiot, dumber than a bag of bricks really.

Is this supposed to earn him fans in Boston? And what's the relevance of bringing this up right before your playoff series with them. Is it supposed to light a fire under TML's ass? Maybe focus on the present instead of reminiscing on the past.

 

[LeafGrief]

Tavares is such an idiot, dumber than a bag of bricks really.

He's an attention seeker that can't go 1 week without whining about something that'll bring cameras right back on him.

Imagine reading that article and thinking that Tavares was whining or looking for attention. Baffling, really.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Imagine reading that article and thinking that Tavares was whining or looking for attention. Baffling, really.

imagine thinking he read the article, rather than popped in to share a hot take

 

[hector morrison]

Tavares is such an idiot, dumber than a bag of bricks really.

Is this supposed to earn him fans? And what's the relevance of bringing this up right before your playoff series with them. Is it supposed to light a fire under TML's ass?

Must be a different Tavares...I haven't seen evidence of any this tripe!

 

[Mr Tadakichi]

Imagine reading that article and thinking that Tavares was whining or looking for attention. Baffling, really.

Yeah, didn't read anything like that either. Not sure what he saw lol.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Can we let this die? He signed in Toronto, end of story. Who cares who he considered or did not? Let it die already. I am sure he considered a lot of teams, big deal.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

for those lazy like me

Cassidy came away from the meeting hoping Tavares had been sold on Boston, but it wasn't to be. In the end, he chose the Maple Leafs, the team he'd grown up rooting for in Oakville, Ontario.

"I like the guy," Cassidy said in a phone interview last week. "He's honest. He got to the points he wanted, the questions he wanted answered. I have a lot of respect for him.

"I don't judge him by the choice he made. He had his choice of teams. Good for him. I found him to come off as a true professional, a good guy, a solid guy. Now the opposition, unfortunately, but a good guy."

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

fascinating...

 

[Mase]

Great town, great tradition, if the money was right why wouldn't he "consider" it?

That being said, what's done is done, and I'm sure the player and the fans are more than happy with they're current circumstances...at least until they're not, lol.

 

[Peiskos]

Wait, hold the phone...you're telling me a high profile star UFA considered MORE than 1 NHL team?! OMG!! this is breaking news!!

 

[Little Psycho]

Let this die.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

I don't know why anyone would be gullible enough at this point to believe he was ever going to sign anywhere except Toronto.

 

[SI90]

I guarantee if he was asked about San Jose and Dallas he would say the same exact things. He was impressed with them and pictured himself playing there. He was always going to Toronto. He’s not going to say a certain teams pitch was absolutely horrible and he never considered them.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Boston dodged a bullet

 

[SI90]

I don't know why anyone would be gullible enough at this point to believe he was ever going to sign anywhere except Toronto.

It’s Toronto fans obsession with trying to clear his name and say he was genuine with the islanders all along.

 

[HockeyMomx2]

Article here

Pretty interesting. I wonder what it would have taken for them to get Tavares.

I don't think I would have been happy with what they would have had to get rid of to make that work. I also don't see the Bruins in the position they are currently in either without the roster they have. I'm a-okay with where he decided to go.

 

[Braunbaer]

Can we let this die? He signed in Toronto, end of story. Who cares who he considered or did not? Let it die already. I am sure he considered a lot of teams, big deal.

We could. But your boy JT91 can't.

 

[Burke the Legend]

Why does this weasel keep talking?

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

No one:

John Tavares: yeah so a lot of teams wanted me in the off season

 

[ijuka]

Can't wait to hear in 2 years how Tavares considered Seattle 'quite a bit' before demaning 11x7 from Dubas.

My thoughts exactly.

Looks like another one in our series of "boost Dubas's value / ego by pretending that Tavares signing with Leafs wasn't a done deal right from the beginning".

 

[PensandCaps]

went to a worse team. Nyi and Bos are better than toronto