from Neil Best of Newsday,

The director had a question for John Tavares: “How do you feel about pineapples?”

The director had an instruction for John Tavares: “Be super-evocative!”

The director had a request for John Tavares: “Do you know any good Canadian jokes?”

Tavares responded to all of it with an assortment of quizzical looks while good-naturedly going with the flow on Wednesday at Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow.

It was an Islanders off day, part of which their captain spent doing a photo and video shoot for his new endorsement deal with Vita Coco coconut water, doing his best to conform outside his comfort zone.

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