John Tavares is staying home.
The Toronto Maple Leafs centre agreed to an extension with the club for four years with a $4.38 million average annual value, the team announced on Friday.
Tavares, the 34-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., collected 38 goals — his second-most as a Maple Leaf — and 36 assists in 75 regular-season games last season before adding five goals and two assists in 13 post-season contests.
When Tavares last hit free agency in 2018, he left the New York Islanders — who drafted him first overall in 2009 — for a seven-year, $77 million deal with his hometown club, famously posting a picture of his Maple Leafs bed sheets to make the announcement.
Tavares spent five his first six seasons with the Maple Leafs as captain before ceding duties to Auston Matthews.
He totalled 222 goals and 271 assists in 515 games with Toronto over the life of his previous contract, helping the team reach the playoffs in every season.
But while Tavares scored the overtime series-clinching goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the 2023 playoffs, it represented just one of two series victories for Toronto as post-season success eluded the Maple Leafs.
Toronto beat the Ottawa Senators in a six-game first-round series this past season, but fell in seven games to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers in Round 2.
The continued post-season failures — which included twin 6-1 beatdowns at home in Games 5 and 7 against the Panthers — led general manager Brad Treliving to proclaim in May that the “DNA” of the team must be altered.
But Tavares won’t be part of the changes.
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