Evander Kane clearly is an effective playoff performer. Now, after impressing his Edmonton Oilers teammates, the team has a big decision to make as the winger enters free agency. (SportsnetSpec)
EDMONTON — There is soft skill all over the place, but the National Hockey League playoffs are a hard, hard place.
And as our game moves slowly away from the hard places where it once resided — away from fighting, from intimidation and to an extent, hitting — that playoff player becomes increasingly rare.“He revamped the Top 6,” Zach Hyman said of the addition of Kane in January. “Just a massive addition.”There are likely 22-25 legit top-line left wingers in the game today. Guys who are no-doubt first-liners on the left side.
“I’ll go back to when I was in a similar, but very different situation a few months ago,” began Kane, when asked about his plans for free agency, on Tuesday. “Where I was had the opportunity to pick where I wanted to go. Edmonton was interested in me, and I was interested in them. The way I looked at it was, you’ve got two of the best players in the world, a team that you know wants to win now and is primed to win now.
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