He was okay. But after injury, whenever that was he kept playing and was pretty damn bad. Constantly killed plays, made bad passes. Almost took out McDs knee at one point. Hurt us immensely in the Panthers series too. If he was that hurt, he really shouldn’t have been playing.
I’m not sure how anyone could have watched this season and not come to appreciate what Kane brings. We are still butter soft. Even injured he was by far our most physical winger and our best 5 on 5 goal scorer after Leon and Connor.
100%
I appreciated him going after Chucky in the Flames series. And going after Quinn in the Nucks series.
Kane was extremely inconsistent and had games where he made the entire fanbase want to tear its hair out with the penalties, giveaways, or poor defensive zone effort. He is also a much more impactful player than the 10.5 million dollar trio of suck in Arvidsson/Henrique/Skinner. We're a significantly worse team up front without Kane. We need his forechecking ability/speed even if you ignore the intimidation aspect of his game. Downgrading from McLeod and Holloway to Henrique and Skinner doesn't help either.
Kane played hurt too much of the time and it showed.
I hope so. His playing injured/playing healthy history is so hard to figure out. There’s not exactly a public record of it. I guess we can assume he was injured throughout the playoffs, we know that for sure. But there was times last year in the regular season I wondered if he’s playing hurt or just playing bad.
Yeh. I definitely had my share of frustration with Kane’s play last year. Unfortunate cause when he’s at his best he’s a playoff beast.
I mean what did Draisaitl do in the cats series? When your that banged up there’s not much you can do. At that point it’s on the coach.
There is a public record of it though. He literally said in an interview he had a sports hernia going back to December. At the end of the playoffs they said he at that point he had two hernias, torn abductors and two abdomen tears. All of this was public and discussed on here. Maybe you just missed it?
That didn't come out till after, and yeh i did miss that presser. Throughout the year though, it was like is healthy? Is he not? Is his wrist healed? I guess we found out after the fact that he was injured Post-December. Good news I guess. We can pin him sucking on that.
Didn't hurt us like Kane. But to Knob's credit, they sat Kane when it was apparent he was hurting us out there.
That’s not really unique to Kane though. We have absolutely no idea what’s going on with Arvidsson right now for example.
Never said it was. That's just how it is. But assuming he was healthy Post-Wrist Recovery but Pre-December Hernia, there were still warts showing up in his game. I am just saying I'm not confident what version of Kane we will be getting, personally I'm worried about his game, but seeing injured reduced play could be biasing my view.
Gonna disagree that drai didn’t hurt us in the finals. We win the cup pretty handily if he could score even a few goals. Instead he was just kind of there.
Difference between didn't hurt and didn't help us. He didn't help us much, just some assists if i remember.
Going to completely disagree with you there. Kane had 19 points in the first 22 games and was in my opinion the best player on the entire team, McDavid and all, to start the season last year. He was the only guy who came ready to play from game 1.
Had a hatty in that time frame too didn't he? Well maybe I'm being hard on Kaner for his post injury play.
Yeah I double checked it was 11 goals and 9 assists in the first 22 games which takes us to the end of November. He missed a couple games at the beginning of December and at that point was never the same.
