After injury-plagued year, Tavares looks 'excellent' at camp. markhmasters has more:
TSN Toronto reporter Mark Masters checks in daily with news and notes on the Maple Leafs, who practised in two groups – main and reserve – at the Ford Performance Centre on Friday."Personally, as I look back on this season, I had some really good stretches of hockey and I felt at times I wasn't as consistent as I'd like to be and that kind of coincides with how things went for us as a team," said the Maple Leafs captain, who scored 26 goals and produced 60 points in 63 games.
"I had the oblique kind of lingering for a long time and just didn't have the type of summer that you'd like to have in terms of ... a training standpoint," Tavares said."So, I knew this break would be good for me to just rest up and get physically to a good point." Tavares, who will turn 30 in September, focused on his skating during the voluntary Phase 2 workouts.
"He's flying out there," Tavares said. “It's incredible just the way he's elevated himself and used this time to get even better.", who was rehabbing his own injury, a broken knuckle, alongside Mikheyev during the season pause."He was focused. He never got distracted or maybe a little down on himself with his situation. He came in and worked his balls off, man, and you can see it now. He's flying out there. He's making plays. He looks good.
Tavares was part of the return-to-play committee so he was active in helping design the protocols and passing along the information. "I've been really impressed with our execution here to start camp," said Tavares."With such a long layoff you never know how that's going to go, but I think a lot that has to do with the way the guys bought into Phase 2 and took it seriously and really prepared themselves."struggled at times when paired together earlier this season and Keefe actually broke up that duo shortly after taking over behind the bench.
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