John Tavares (lacrosse player)

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Born	September 4, 1968, Toronto, Ontario, CA
Position	Forward
Height Weight	5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 175 lb (80 kg)
NLL Team	Buffalo Bandits
Nationality	Canada
Pro Career	1992 – present
Shoots	Left

John Tavares is a professional box lacrosse player in the National Lacrosse League and mathematics teacher at Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga Ontario, Canada.

Tavares has played his entire career with the Buffalo Bandits since their inaugural season in 1992. He was acquired from the Detroit Turbos in exchange for Brian Nikula in October 1991.

John is also the Professional Lacrosse Players' Association Representative for the Bandits.

Tavares is the uncle of ice hockey player John Tavares, a forward with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League who has won the CHL Rookie of the Year Award and the OHL Rookie of the Year for the 2005-06 OHL season.

1 Records, Accolades, Accomplishments
2 NLL Points Records
3 NLL Career Milestone Points
4 Statistics
- 4.1 NLL
5 Awards
6 External links

[edit] Records, Accolades, Accomplishments

(Through March 4 2006)

Games Played, Buffalo Bandits: 170
Career Assists, NLL: 562
Career Points, NLL: 1093
Tavares is the first player in NLL history to have 500 goals and 500 assists.

[edit] NLL Points Records

On Saturday February 18, 2006, the Buffalo Bandits defeated the Minnesota Swarm by a score of 14-9 in front of 12,458 fans at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. In that game, John Tavares tied the NLL Career Points (goals + assists) record at 1,091 points held by Gary Gait, who had retired after the 2005 season. [1]

On Saturday March 4, 2006, 10,961 fans witnessed history. On that night, the Buffalo Bandits played their 7th regular season game again hosting the Minnesota Swarm, and John Tavares scored two points in an 11-8 loss. The first was his 1,092nd career point, the record-breaker, which was an assist to Mark Steenhuis who scored a power-play goal at 11:57 in the second period. (The second point, Point 1,093, was also an assist to Steenhuis in the third period.) Play was stopped, and John Tavares was given the game ball. ^[1]

[edit] NLL Career Milestone Points

No. 1: Jan. 4, 1992, assist to Rich Kilgour vs. New York in first game.
100: March 20, 1993, goal vs. Detroit's Paul Mootz in 16th game.
200: Jan. 20, 1996, goal vs. Baltimore's J.J. Pearl in 34th game.
300: Feb. 7, 1997, assist to Darris Kilgour vs. Baltimore in 46th game.
400: Jan. 8, 1999, goal vs. Philadelphia's Dallas Eliuk in 62nd game.
500: Feb. 18, 2000, goal vs. Rochester's Pat O'Toole in 78th game.
600: Feb. 10, 2001, goal vs. Washington's Devin Dalep in 91st game.
700: Feb. 1, 2002, assist to Chris Driscoll vs. Montreal in 107th game.
800: Feb. 8, 2003, assist to Mike Accursi vs. Toronto in 122nd game.
900: Feb. 14, 2004, goal vs. Anaheim's Matt Disher in 139th game.
1,000: Feb. 19, 2005, assist to Delby Powless vs. Rochester in 154th game.
1,091: Feb. 18, 2006, assist to Cory Bomberry vs. Minnesota in 169th game. (Ties Gary Gait's then-existing NLL Career Points Record)
1,092: March 4, 2006, assist to Mark Steenhuis vs. Minnesota in 170th game. (New NLL Career Points Record)

[edit] Statistics

[edit] NLL

		Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	LB	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	LB	PIM
1992	Buffalo	8	21	22	43	66	26	3	12	12	24	29	8
1993	Buffalo	8	35	23	58	93	28	2	4	3	7	6	2
1994	Buffalo	8	27	20	47	74	14	2	6	8	14	19	9
1995	Buffalo	8	24	21	45	66	21	1	2	1	3	6	0
1996	Buffalo	10	41	40	81	102	4	2	4	7	11	20	2
1997	Buffalo	10	37	29	66	104	18	2	7	9	16	30	0
1998	Buffalo	9	31	25	56	80	8	1	2	5	7	9	0
1999	Buffalo	12	33	34	67	112	35	--	--	--	--	--	--
2000	Buffalo	12	34	49	83	123	10	1	2	1	3	18	0
2001	Buffalo	14	51	64	115	159	14	--	--	--	--	--	--
2002	Buffalo	16	42	46	88	145	12	--	--	--	--	--	--
2003	Buffalo	16	49	58	107	155	25	2	5	8	13	16	0
2004	Buffalo	16	49	44	93	118	25	3	7	13	20	21	4
2005	Buffalo	16	43	59	102	126	9	1	2	3	5	9	0
2006	Buffalo	16	32	53	85	95	12	3	7	4	11	13	0
Totals		179	549	587	1136	1618	261	23	60	74	134	196	25