John Tavares

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The Rock organization showed a lot of class prior to the game acknowledging John Tavares.

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Game 2 also saw the Shamrocks' John Tavares become the all-time leading scorer in Mann Cup history.His two-goal, one-assist performance gave him 78 goals and 85 assists in 39 games.

John Tavares has the square jaw and thick brow of a hockey player.He also boasts a crooked nose that dekes right before darting left.

He was sitting recently at a table at a sidewalk café when he was interrupted by a fellow.

"You look like that guy who plays for the Calgary Flames with his nose all punched up," the patron said.He thought for a moment."You're Tim Hunter!"

"Tim Hunter?!You've got to be kidding me," Tavares said with a laugh."He's the ugliest guy in the NHL."
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John Tavares is largely unrecognizable to the public despite being one of Canada's greatest athletes.The scoring machine recently fired his 800th career goal in senior lacrosse.He has another 334 goals as a pro.

That night, a few blocks to the north, Tavares would score his 800th career goal in senior lacrosse, an achievement of Gretzkyian proportions.

He has achieved greatness in Canada's other national sport, yet he remains an unknown until the moment he takes the lacrosse floor.

His sport is gruelling, brutal and unforgiving, but the rewards are far more modest than those offered by professional hockey.

"I don't make a lot of money playing lacrosse," he said."Not enough to live on."

So, he teaches high school mathematics in suburban Mississauga, Ont., and moonlights with the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League.

The top salary in the fast-growing pro circuit is US$19,800.Good pay for lacrosse, chump change in a world of sports millionaires.

In summer, he plays senior lacrosse, where the only payment is the camaraderie of the dressing room and the possible glory of winning the Mann Cup as national champions.

Tavares, 32, was playing for the Akwasasne Thunder of the Ontario Lacrosse Association earlier this summer, but asked for his release when the team stumbled out of the gate.

He was lured to Victoria to play for the Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association.The Shamrocks are trailing the Coquitlam Adanacs 2-1 in the WLA's best-of-seven final series.The winner plays the Ontario champion for the Mann Cup.

Tavares has won five Cups with the Brampton (Ont.) Excelsiors and the Six Nations Chiefs.He was named MVP in three of those series.

He is called the Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse, both for his bushel of points and the uncanny way he deciphers intricate patterns of play.But the only way in which he is paid like Gretzky is in compliments.
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"I'm not a big guy and I'm not fast," Tavares said.
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John was the first of two babies born in their adopted homeland.
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Tavares played for St. Christopher House, a neighbourhood agency.
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Tavares was most proud of kidney pads he put together with bits of plastic piping.He wore them until last season.

Life was tough in the neighbourhood.Some of his friends began stealing and a world of crime beckoned."There was a lot of trouble to get into," Tavares said.

One day, he came home to see a For Sale sign on the postage stamp-sized front lawn.He took it down and hid it.It was up the next day, wired to the fence.He got it down and hid it again.

Despite his efforts, the house was sold.At 13, he left downtown Toronto for the suburbs of Mississauga and a new life where lessons in the classroom mattered more than lessons on the street.

He completed high school and put himself through teacher's college by working in a Loblaw bakery at $15 per hour.

Even as he began his assault on the lacrosse record books, he laboured for a construction company and spent the summer of 1991 as a gardener at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver.

His 800th goal came on a wicked shot against Dallas Eliuk of the Adanacs last Friday.He has scored another 334 goals as a pro.

He has been targeted in the WLA playoffs.A cowardly Burnaby Laker player drilled Tavares into the boards from behind after the whistle blew in a semi-final game.

The Adanacs have been somewhat less disrespectful, instead trying to taunt and intimidate the veteran.

"I like being the underdog," Tavares said."Just keep telling me I'm all washed up."

If the Shamrocks come back against the pesky Adanacs, Tavares will celebrate his 33rd birthday on Sept. 4 during Game 1 of the Mann Cup finals.

Win or lose, he will be back in the classroom teaching mathematics at Philip Pocock Catholic secondary school in Mississauga soon after the final buzzer.

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