He was pretty iffy at the end of his last season there.
"I haven't even thought about that, but now that you bring it up … I don't know," Tavares said Wednesday. "I'm just going to try to go about my business the same way.
"I don't want to signal it as the end. I'm not approaching it that way, so I'm just trying to play one game at a time and focus on finishing strong and worry about my situation in the days and weeks that come after the season and take some time to decompress from the year, and then start to look forward."
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I hope it all works out, too, and I'm back as well. That's all I can really control right now. I just want to focus on one game at a time and finishing the season strong.
"The days and weeks ahead, I'll have plenty of time to think about it and start looking at the future and moving forward."
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