Fansided

Islanders fans now involving food in their nasty breakup with John Tavares

By Dave Stevenson

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Fans celebrate a first period goal by Cal Clutterbuck #15 of the New York Islanders against the Philadelphia Flyers during a preseason game at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 16, 2018 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Fans celebrate a first period goal by Cal Clutterbuck #15 of the New York Islanders against the Philadelphia Flyers during a preseason game at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 16, 2018 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
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New York Islanders fans are still mad at John Tavares for leaving for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now they’re resorting to food to express their disdain. 

Thursday, Feb. 28 will be one of the rowdiest nights Nassau Coliseum has ever seen. No, Billy Joel won’t be refusing to play “We Didn’t Start The Fire” to a crazy crowd of lunatics. Rather, those lunatics will be watching the New York Islanders take on the Toronto Maple Leafs. Most of them will likely be booing John Tavares in his first return to the Isles since signing with the Leafs.

This will be a hate-filled fest like no other. Tavares was the Islanders hero. And their hero went and joined the Maple Leafs. There hasn’t been a heel turn so cold, harsh, and sudden since Hulk Hogan joined the nWo.

Tavares and Islanders fans have gone through a horrible breakup. The kind that leaves you feeling bitter for the rest of your life.

Obviously, Islanders fans didn’t take the news well and some of them still haven’t gotten over it. But now they’re dragging a New York staple into this heated feud — bagels. A local bagel shop has created blue and orange bagels before Thursday’s heavyweight fight.

The shop has also shown their disdain for Tavares and their love for new hero Mathew “The Kid Who Won The Clader” Barzal.

First of all, let me just say I’ll eat just about anything. Yes, even pineapple on pizza. But I have my limits. Those shades of blue and orange are my limit. How can anyone look at something blue and orange while thinking “wow, this should be delicious!”?

Hopefully, these bagels don’t make it into Nassau Coliseum. If The Simpsons has taught us anything, it’s that free food at sporting events is never a good idea.

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Islanders fans, do whatever you need to do on Thursday. If booing a guy who’s playing for the team he rooted for as a child makes you happy, feel free. But please do not bring in the bagels. Nobody wants to see Gary Bettman knocked out on the ice, covered in bagels.

On second thought, that’s not a bad idea.

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