Where is Tavares?

Obviously we don’t know what’s happening in the locker room but he seems like such a quiet presence and doesn’t pump up the team despite being the captain.

In previous years we heard about guys like Thornton and Spezza who stepped up and gave intermission speeches to the team that got the guys riled up and made them want to put up a fight. (https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/2278693)

This year everyone on this team including coaching staff just seems so depressed and deflated. And there doesn’t seem to be anyone standing up and saying “we can do this”. Maybe there has, but we don’t see any of that passion on the bench or hear it from the media.

There just seems to be no leadership presence whatsoever.