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Originally Posted by Buff
You want your team to be perfect and all the players too. That's not realistic. Evander Kane is a player with the skills to help pretty much every team in the league, yet so many fans don't want him on their team. Heck, players don't want him on their team.
For me the issue is, the players didn't want him on their team. He is toxic and obviously divisive if the Sharks players told management that he needs to be gone. The Jets players did the same and I'm sure there was probably some of that happening in Buffalo too.
If he can just play and not be a side show distraction in the room, then sign me up, yet here we are, yet another team doesn't want Kane anywhere near their dressing room.
This is more of an issue of how his attitude affects the rest of the team instead of the dumb things he does off ice. He is toxic enough for teams to want to get rid of him. The Sharks were desperate to get rid of him so they used to the illegal stuff he got caught doing as a reason to terminate his contract and wipe their hands clear of him. I suspect it wasn't so much his illegal activities that made the organization want him gone but the negative way he affected the dressing room that made them look for ways to get rid of him.
If some team wants to risk signing him, then go for it. That's their decision. I just don't want my team to risk them becoming another team that desperately wants to get rid of Kane before they lose other key players who want to be away from him.
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I just find it odd when you see the people saying "He's got the skills man! Sign him up!!"
As though adding a player to a team is ceteris paribus. All other factors will remain equal, skill will be added ergo the final product must improve.
But thats very obviously not how it works.
You add a guy like Kane who has been 'persona non grata' everywhere he's gone and people think he'd be a net positive to their team?
Why? If he adds 50 points but 10-20 other players regress because they hate playing with him, or dont re-sign or whatever...were those 50 points a net positive?
Probably not.