TORONTO — John Tavares met Connor McDavid before the phenom had ever played a shift in junior. Chris Tanev has trained alongside the superstar each off-season for more than a decade.
Chris Tanev has trained alongside the superstar each off-season for more than a decade.
The pair were both granted exceptional status to play junior a year early, but Tavares could see the pressures were different for the most-hyped prospect since Sidney Crosby. "There's a real sense of himself and how he carries himself on a daily basis," Tavares said of the top pick in 2015."How he deals with the media, deals with being in the public eye."
Matthews, however, appears set to miss a sixth straight game with an undisclosed upper-body injury that started with a day-to-day timeline.
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