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Tavares dazzles, but misses chances, too

By E.J. Hradek

Monday, October 5, 2009

When I caught up with John Tavares about an hour after he'd finished his first NHL game -- a 4-3 shootout loss to the visiting Penguins on Saturday night -- the kid scorer looked like he could have been an intern at Sterling Cooper, the fictional ad agency in "Mad Men." No, he didn't have a cigarette or a gin and tonic in his hand. Rather, he was dressed nattily, dark hair cropped short, looking all business for a 19-year-old. (You could peg him as a young Don Draper/Dick Whitman.) After dream ...

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