Patrick Kane Is LEAVING Detroit? Ask Me Anything 

I sure hope we can Keep Kane, I love his game, You hit the nail on the head, it IS a treat to watch him.

He better stay

For a Debbie downer season, you sure got lucky to see a healthy Kaner don the wing wheel sweater.

Nah screw that. If he leaves it’s a disappointment

I never realized how much he freezes defenders when the offensive zone has been setup, watching him just tic tac the puck back and forth while he scans for a passing or shooting lane and not a single defender challenges him is insane.

😂😂😂😂😂 Anyone who picked Nashville to win is a fool

You pick your winners after the rounds end??? Pretty easy to go 8/8 lol

lol

​@bough2923 ^guy who hasn't learned about Jokes yet

Same. Only series I got wrong was the Stars/Knights series

@@JaredGoofball Exactly the same here. I expected more of vegas, but Dallas is a tough team too.

I had toronto and winnipeg moving on god damn it canada 😂

7/8 for me, only missed on the Jets. Really thought Helly was going to do better, but playoffs are a crazy animal.

Marner for PLD (please god take it).

Almost exactly the same as me! 8/8 and 5/8 for the amount of games. Had boston over the laffs in 6 games!

@Siksdev The Rangers can afford Kane, but is Kane the player they need?

​@Siksdev Kane had 1.2 goals per 60 this year at 5v5; that would be 2nd on on the Rangers behind only Panarin; no other Ranger was a goal or better per 60 at 5v5 this year. Most were much lower, even in your top 6. Kane played only 49 full games this season; go look up how many 5v5 goals he had compared to Zibanejad.

@@vipeholmskolan6052 Kane's 5v5 goals per 60 (1.2) this year was significantly better than every NY player but Panarin. a team of power play merchants could certainly use him, yes. he is not a power play specialist, quite the opposite. but i highly doubt he has any interest in NY.

​@Siksdev You are displaying impressive ignorance of how good Kane was this year. Again, his goals per 60 at 5v5 would have been 2nd on NY and well ahead of everyone on NY but Panarin. No one else on NY was even close to his 5v5 goal scoring rate. He was the most efficient goal scorer and point producer on Detroit. No contender negotiating w him will be offering bottom 6. That isn't what you get him for. Also he was literally on your top line in a playoff series 1 year ago, on one hip and way less good than he is now and is likely to be next year. Also, Boston, Florida and Vegas all reportedly offered him top line/top 6 and top power play just this past offseason. You seem to have not kept up w pretty much anything that happened this year as far as him. My advice is to go check out his highlights and his numbers, then look at his analytics relative to his teammates, and analytics for Det w and wo him on the ice.

Both of Larkin's injuries occurred w Kane in the lineup - which tanked the team not just for the games Larkin was out but for several games after he returned each time. And in the second case the injury coincided w a tough road trip and then his comeback coincided w an even tougher road trip. So the team's overall record with and wo Kane is irrelevant in judging his impact on the team. I will tell you that after the all star break, if you remove Kane from the lineup, they do a full collapse immediately after the break. He carried them and led the team while literally just about the entire rest of the roster stopped scoring 5v5 and never started again. The team's high point as far as quality of play was the 6 game winning streak, which Kane keyed just about every win during and which ended w him on the top line as the key goal scorer. As for "watching him in overtime and the PP", he was not an OT or power play specialist. Quite the opposite, he was one of their best 5v5 players the whole time, and their best 5v5 goal scorer. One of only 6 Wings to be a + at 5v5. If you add in the power play to that, he was pretty much the team's best player or a top 2 player. But if he'd never played on the power play at all he would still have been one of the team's best players. The notion he was a power play specialist is a weird one that I had never heard before the last year or two. Kane's never been a power play scorer. He's a 5v5 and 3v3 specialist. And at 5v3 he will give you automatic goals w his passing. He helps 5v4 and is an effective point guard of the unit, but it's not his specialty or anything. The 'slow it down style' does not really exist outside of when the offense is set up in the o-zone. Which IS a power play thing, esp for Detroit. Otherwise if you watch Kane's goals and assists this year at even strength, you will notice there's no slowing anything down. It's fast.

Detroit is still in the mix imo. I do think if it's "Detroit vs the field", take the field. But Det is in the mix. Trouble is the lineups and LAlonde and the team only having 1 real center and 3 real wingers. The end of the year and into any playoff appearance lineups would have had Kane being the guy left out, while the 3 other good forwards all got to play on the same line together. If anything is a dealbreaker, that would be it. At this point in his career he probably wants and needs (and deserves) to have good players to play with. He can no longer do what he so often was forced to do in Chicago even during the dynasty, which is be played w inferior linemates to 'elevate' them and "help the depth". He can still be a great and super productive player (as he showed) but he now requires help on his line.

For the most part, but the good moments where good!!

Carolina? What dude lol?

@@casewojo6186 dude the rangers only have good special teams and Carolina is better at 5 on 5, if they don't take many penalties the rangers won't win this matchup

as a dynasty Hawks fan who now roots for whoever Kane plays for, i will tell you, i would be completely shocked if he ever played for the Blackhawks again at any point. from both sides' perspective. they forced him and Toews out. Hawks did a really good job of hiding the bad blood and what a nasty situation it actually was.

@@paulwt9783 If you're rooting for whoever Kane plays for then you were never a Blackhawks fan to begin with, you were a Kane fan.

Ouch. I hadn’t heard that yet.

He isn't going to get traded since he has no-trade-clause. So he isn't leaving.

I agree. But I dont read anything into the tweets. The final sentence in the tweet was something about the work not being done and LGRW. I'd call that mixed signals. Also the thanks for the memories messages typically come after signing a new contract and it's a certainty the player isnt returning. Weird timing on kanes part. I see it as kane negotiating through the media. Making his desires known to yzerman and the other 31 GM's. Like I said, I agree he isnt likely to return, but it has nothing to do with interview/social media comments

Why isn't he likely to return ? Out of the teams he was looking to join, people put Detroit at the bottom of the list as well and that's where he went.​@@Mike-ix5sv

​@@Mike-ix5svNobody thanks people for the memories if they intend to stick around and make more memories. That's the point of the thank you, that you won't be making more memories with them. He is 100% not coming back and he 100% told us that with thr tweet. BTW, the "more work" thing means he is trying to win another cup. The Wings are not going to be contenders while he's still in the league.

You really think Rangers are going to give up Adam Fox? Are you high? And why on earth NY rangers would take bum like TJ Brodie to their roster?

⁠@@markiv2942to replace fox. The trade isn’t the worst I’ve seen. There’s been some absolutely ridiculous mock trade offers

Ok, I don't like to comment much, but as a semi-leafs fan I don't think I'd even trade fox(as the rangers) for that entire leaf's package(expiring player(brodie), who cares mid pick). Fox is a #1D, and IMO a #1D is worth a fair bit more than a #1RW(Marner is that; even with people shitting on him right now). TJ is nothing, Kaapo, is still a relatively young defensively responsible winger(I've been told) who may, if given the chance???? do better?(better than a non contract). Picks may be a wash, or favour Toronto when it should favour the Rangers. I am not trying to shit on Marner. I feel many undervalue him with his playoff performances (he has been near a ppg in the playoffs(0.877ppg)). I'll take the criticism, but maybe Toronto has too much of the same thing. Marner, very well could go off on another team, and still could on the Leafs. TLDR; Fox 1D > Marner 1RW (I still like Marner and may be one of the few thinking keeping him is the best option(often lose trading the best player in the deal). A more balanced cap structure is the answer I'm leaning towards.

Teams who want to win a Cup would not take on an $11 million cap hit for a guy who becomes the invisible man in the playoffs. Marner is great at what he is, but playoff hockey is a different game and that game is not in him.

I mean, after a 25 year playoff streak, you can’t expect a rebuild to happen overnight. 😂 Take it from a Sabres fan who was ten the last time they made playoffs lol. Hang in there though, from an outsider’s perspective, the Yzerplan still seems pretty promising.

Detroit is a legitimate team next year