What explains John Tavares’ goal-scoring bonanza this season?
On the one hand, it’s pretty simple: A world-class shooter is having the best shooting season of his NHL career — and in a contract year, no less.
Tavares has scored 33 goals on 19 percent shooting.
The timing is curious, and not only because Tavares is 34 now and in his 16th NHL season — a time, in other words, when he should be slowing down. It’s also odd because last season Tavares had the worst shooting season of his career: 29 goals in 80 games on 10 percent shooting and a mid-season dry spell that saw him score once in 13 games.
From one extreme to the other, then. But that doesn’t feel like the whole story.
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