Not only that, but to your point, as a hockey player, he holds extremely high on-ice value and is pretty close to impossible to replace if you shed him. E.Kane? Not so much
Also, P.Kane has never been regarded as anything but a very good teammate and on ice professional
E.Kane has issues both on the ice/in the locker room, as well as off ice - hawkeytalkman
Im not sure there is a comparable player who has had the duality of locker room/off ice issues?
I mean even guys like Sean Avery, who most regarded as a POS, didnt really have off ice issues.
Then other guys with off-ice issues, typically were still good guys in the locker room
Apparently it was someone at the bar who pressed the charge of trespassing and went rogue against the owner. It sounds like it was the bartender. My guess is he's a Buffalo bro meathead who was trying to get with one of the girls at the bar and got involved over personally with the case. Hope he gets fired.
Just because he hasnt fought with teammates the last 12 months doesnt mean that still isnt a big character issue that is on his rap sheet that the entire league is well aware of. Sure, anyone will be on the best behavior with team personnel the first year of starting new elsewhere, especially with how bad the WPG and canadian media smeared him for his antics
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA Joined: 02.11.2009
Jul 22 @ 1:21 PM ET
Apparently it was someone at the bar who pressed the charge of trespassing and went rogue against the owner. It sounds like it was the bartender. My guess is he's a Buffalo bro meathead who was trying to get with one of the girls at the bar and got involved over personally with the case. Hope he gets fired. - bluengold12
Location: Matt FRICKIN ELLIS, IN Joined: 01.17.2007
Jul 22 @ 1:21 PM ET
I don't want him hung just stay out of the news which he won't - GERBE!!!75PTS
sometimes when you are a "celebrity" people target you. I don't know if that is the case here. but its harder for people like him to stay out of the news. anything someone like him does gets blown up and some times people try to make things up looking for the spotlight or money.
i have no clue if that is what happened here but i will tell you that because of these few things that happened the only way he will be assured to stay out of the news is to stay home. and you can't expect him to do that
Location: Matt FRICKIN ELLIS, IN Joined: 01.17.2007
Jul 22 @ 1:22 PM ET
Just because he hasnt fought with teammates the last 12 months doesnt mean that still isnt a big character issue that is on his rap sheet that the entire league is well aware of. Sure, anyone will be on the best behavior with team personnel the first year of starting new elsewhere, especially with how bad the WPG and canadian media smeared him for his antics - hawkeytalkman
just becuase he did it in the past doesn't mean he will do it again.
just becuase he did it in the past doesn't mean he will do it again. - IndianaSabresFan
12 mos of good locker room behavior doesnt wipe his past record clean is all im saying, as well as just because he did it in the past doesnt mean he will do it again.
All I am saying is he is only a calendar year removed from a very bad locker room reputation in Winnipeg and in that time he has run into two more legal issues.
The picture of him, no matter how you look at it, is very, very negative all around
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA Joined: 02.11.2009
Jul 22 @ 1:25 PM ET
sometimes when you are a "celebrity" people target you. I don't know if that is the case here. but its harder for people like him to stay out of the news. anything someone like him does gets blown up and some times people try to make things up looking for the spotlight or money.
i have no clue if that is what happened here but i will tell you that because of these few things that happened the only way he will be assured to stay out of the news is to stay home. and you can't expect him to do that - IndianaSabresFan
So out of everyone in the NHL he's the one that's always in the news lately
This guy needs to find a fall guy .
Location: Matt FRICKIN ELLIS, IN Joined: 01.17.2007
Jul 22 @ 1:29 PM ET
12 mos of good locker room behavior doesnt wipe his past record clean is all im saying, as well as just because he did it in the past doesnt mean he will do it again.
All I am saying is he is only a calendar year removed from a very bad locker room reputation in Winnipeg and in that time he has run into two more legal issues.
The picture of him, no matter how you look at it, is very, very negative all around - hawkeytalkman
never said it did.. but he has been good so i don't know how you can chastise him for being a bad locker room person when we haven't heard one bad thing in buffalo about that.. is it a possibility, yes. but i haven't heard anything so for now i don't count that as a worry