A lot of those are 10min misconcuts etc even 5 minuters. They don't affect on the team. Kane that hard. He brings it on the ice. Scoring and doing things. Moving things. Sharks best scorer last season, even with all that debt. That's confidence right there sire. Edmonton got a beauty here.
Im a sharks fan. no need to try to educate me on Kane. he plays a lone wolf game and his teammates despise him.
As to the "a lot of those are misconducts", you are partially correct. his Penalty output is still hideous even if you remove those.
2018-19 He got 20+ in misconducts in a boston game, but also took an instigator and double minor for roughing earlier in the game. He got 10 in Florida, but also got 2 for unsportsmanlike conduct. That same game took a double minor for a high stick and earlier hooking. vs Calgary his misconduct wasn't much and was at the end of the game. So meh. Against Vegas he got 20 for abuse of officials, abusive language sure, but also got high sticking 2 minutes prior, then took 2 for tripping and also 2 for unsportsmanlike conduct and even got the San jose coach to take an unsportsmanlike from the bench for 6 more minutes lol. He only got a fighting in the Isles game, but he also got 3 roughing penalties and a slashing penalty that game. Those were the only games with more than 10 minutes of penalties so its all I looked at. most of his rap sheet are 4 minutes a game spread out evenly.
Add those misconducts up and you can subtract 50+5 for misconducts and his 5 for fightingx2. He took 153 minutes of penalties that year, minus those misconducts and the 2 fighting penalties for a cool 93 minutes of penalties in 75 games.
2019-20 he took 122 minutes of penalties. only 4 Misconducts. But in 3 of them, the sharks came out on the short end of the stick and were in the box because kane accrued way more penalties than the other team. His elbowing major Against the Caps for instance. Or when they threw 19 minutes of penalties on him in the last 2 seconds of the 2nd period of the Nashville game to guarantee he would have to sit in the box for the entire 3rd period LOL. He lips off at the refs ALL THE TIME to the dismay of his teammates. The Refs respond by nailing him for everything. Rightfully so.
Remove his Misconducts and 2 fighting penalties here and he still took 72 minutes of penalties in 64 games that year.
Last year ill grant you this, he had a record low 42 penalty minutes in 56 games and no misconducts or fights.