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Given the clucking on traditional and social media over John Tavares, it seems a lot of people forgot the term fan comes from fanatic.
The fans’ sense of betrayal was not eased by the fact Tavares patiently served as the lone bright spot on a team plagued by comical management during all of his nine seasons there. Nor were they appeased when the Islanders unexpectedly got better when Lou Lamoriello was signed as general manager shortly before Tavares left.
“It was a pretty special moment, certainly, to be recognized like that,” Tavares said. “To get the support from the city and the fans shows you why it's special to be a Maple Leaf. Definitely got some goosebumps and a nice little boost there.” However, there were soreheads who interrupted the figurative kumbaya chorus to complain that Leafs fans lacked the hauteur befitting the centre of the hockey universe. “A meaningless overreaction,” one fellow grumped on Twitter. “Thought we, as a hockey town, were bigger than this.”
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