The guy is just absurd. Soak it all in. #isles move on into Round 2. #Tavares #StanleyCupPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/lmVwQfkUhm
— Elite Sports NY (@EliteSportsNY) April 25, 2016
2. Tavares OT Winner
It took the New York Islanders more than two decades to win a playoff series.
When they finally did, it was bedlam in Brooklyn. John Tavares‘ game winning goal against the Florida Panthers in Game 6 of the 2016 first round playoffs in double-overtime erased thousands of demons for Isles fans.
But it almost didn’t happen.
The Isles trailed two-to-one with less than a minute remaining in regulation before Tavares scored the equalizer. He then won it in OT.
“That’s the one,” Rose said. “I don’t know how else to describe it but that it was my little Stanley Cup for the Islanders because we don’t do any more than the first round. I was really starting to become afraid that I would be known as the Horace Clarke of the Islanders and so when Tavares scored that goal it was a release, even a catharsis to an extent.”
