Craig Berube couldn’t believe it.

There’s a pleasant surprise, the Maple Leafs coach thought, as he entered his hotel room during a trip last season and saw several bags of food waiting for him.

“All these bags of groceries in my room and I’m like, ‘Wow, that’s nice,’” Berube said. “It was from Whole Foods Market. I open all this stuff up and I’m (thinking) ‘Who would eat this?’

“They put in the wrong room. It was JT’s stuff. So I made a delivery to him.”

That would be Leafs centre John Tavares, as Berube provided a little glimpse into the kind of regimen to which Tavares adheres in his daily life.

It was a topic of conversation on Thursday as Tavares, known throughout the National Hockey League for his meticulous ways, nears 500 career NHL goals.

Tavares has scored four goals in 202

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