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Toronto Maple Leafs centre John Tavares testified in the Tax Court of Canada yesterday about the strong passions and intensely pressured negotiations that led to him leaving the New York Islanders for his hometown team in 2018 in a blockbuster seven year, $77-million deal. “You’re trying to earn a contract you deserve for where you are in the marketplace of the game and the comparables in the league,” Tavares testified. But under cross-examination by counsel for the Crown, he failed to completely erase the impression that his “signing bonus” of $70 million over seven years — more than...