It really was a perfect confluence Thursday afternoon. Islanders fans had been sipping tea with lemon all day, alternating that with cheery-flavored cough drops to make sure their vocal cords were strong and primed for two-plus hours of booing and jeering and taunting John Tavares, who was back in the neighborhood for the first time as a Toronto Maple Leaf.
Now, it’s true that a good percentage of Islanders fans are Mets fans (and Jets fans; it’s like at birth someone snuck into the nursery and asked you to pick a lifetime bundle, and some sad souls go Mets/Jets/Islanders and the happier ones go Yankees/Giants/Rangers), but we must believe there are some Islanders fans who are actually Yankees fans, too.