Mattb124
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Kane was great on the Sharks until year 3, and then he did the usual Kane stuff.Let's get down to the bottom of this:
Oilers fans, how has Kane, as a -person-, been in Edmonton? Has anyone given him praise or has he done anything stupid there or petty issues?
I have looked high and low and unless there's more out there than I'm seeing (and I've surfed and did some due dilligent research), he's been pretty sound. Everyone has a past and while most of it is, not all of it is on him. So what've yall heard up there?
As for the whole 'fake covid vaccine card' that was the catalyst for the Sharks players to say f-k this guy (I think if he hadn't done that, that the locker room would have been solid alongside him), I have to wonder how someone with that kind of money and having the reputation of being shady couldn't Kane have just paid a doctor to sign him a legit 'fake' one. How did they investigate the card and realize it was fake? Anyone got intel on this?
As far as the vaccine card, you are missing most of the story. When that happened, he had already been waived by the Sharks to the AHL due to the gambling and domestic abuse allegations - and to a degree for having been a cancer in the locker room.
When he was in the AHL, he caught COVID and went under the 10 day protocol (12/20 +- a day if memory serves) and during that time he got on a plane to Canada for Christmas without being cleared by AHL doctors. Then he was unable to return to the team for a game on 1/2 or thereabouts because he was still suffering from COVID symptoms. It was through all that the NHL figured out he had submitted a fake vaccination record.
So no, the Sharks locker room had already turned against him well before being waived and he had done plenty of stuff to sour his relationship with the team before that.
Edmonton can hope that he realizes this is his last chance at getting an NHL salary and that maybe he will act like an adult, but based on his track record I am not sure even that can keep him from reverting to being himself.
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