Doug Weight struggled to find the right word to properly describe the feeling he and the Islanders organization have concerning the future of captain John Tavares, but here’s one that surely works — uneasiness.
As in, there is a palpable uneasiness around the whole franchise as it awaits the decision of its 27-year-old leader. He is the one person who can so drastically alter the future of the club with his decision to reach unrestricted free agency on July 1 and sign elsewhere or stay with the only team he has known during its upcoming nomadic years before finally, sometime, inhabiting a new rink at Belmont Park.