‘“I just think it’s how close we were off the ice,” Tavares said Saturday prior scoring twice in the Isles’ 4-3 shootout loss inside the First Niagara Center. “Playing with him so young in my career … he had been playing professional hockey for a while and been through a lot of training camps and whatnot. (He) understood … what a lot of it was about. He was someone I could just really lean on when I needed to talk.”’