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Originally Posted by JackIsBack
Character aside, Kane, for just over 2.1 million, is a great signing.... he has 22 goals, 39 points in just over a half season, that's comparable to adding a Lindholm for less cap hit - something the Oilers' desperately needed and requiring nothing they didn't have (cap space and assets). The big questions was, could the room and leadership handle it, and since they had neither to start with, it couldn't do any damage, a gamble all other NHL teams were not willing to take, and righteously so. I think the Oilers were the only team that Kane could have made better with little or no risk of making worse, you can't break something more, once it's broken, it's broken, and the Oilers were certainly that halfway through this season.
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Kane is a perfect example. Capable of putting up good stats in the regular season, but a terrible person to add to your team in terms of character needed for team success. The Sharks made it to the conference finals with Kane in 2019, but he only contributed 8 points and was a -4, on a team that actually had some great leaders. That's the best of his playoffs experience. Now he's on a team where the only real leader with a history of success is Kieth, and he's not even playing a central role.
We'll see how those guys hang together when the going gets really tough.