All of you guys are obsessed with how many points someone scores. There is alot more to the game than offense. Kane is a very skilled player but ius weak defensively. He might be the softest player in the league and he makes poor decisions at times. He is a player that needs to be sheltered.But where does it show? The eye test? The reality is his CF% is solid, his GF% is solid and he puts up tons of points. If you're excellent defensively but terrible offensively, you might be a decent 4th liner. If you're excellent offensively but terrible defensively, you are a star.
There are dozens of guys who can execute and defend within the system but there are only a few players who can be a threat like Kane with the puck on his stick. And remember, being a winger, he has the least important defensive responsibilities on his line. It's not like he's a C where being bad defensively could be a big deal.
We actually arrive at my argument that being a great offensive player as a C is perhaps not as good as being one as a winger because of the added defensive responsibilities possibly holding you back. How do you think Gaudreau could do his thing as a C, for instance? It's just a relic of outdated thinking.
He's not a good person, to me, that is also very important.
Assault, sexual assault, xenophobe...real class act.
The cab thing happened but how can you claim sexual assault when he was cleared on all charges? With everything that came out from that, you think he still did it?
What does Canadian have to do with it?
I would take Kucherov over him AINEC.
Those two are debatable but stamkos was injured most of last year. Anyways op was wrong kane has been considered a top 5 player or at least forward for most of the last five years by most peopleNah Kane is better than Kucherov who gets to play with Stamkos
There have been a few other claims of similar things over the years
Because his acting skills are so bad.
That Christmas commercial is terrible...
I'm not sure there's a winger you want on your team over Kane when it comes down to crunch time...