"I don't remember the first time specifically," Kane said. On Tuesday, I asked Patrick Kane if he recalled the story. I think he wanted me to just be me."ģ Downstate Counties Vote to Explore Seceding From Illinois, Forming New State And we basically did that nearly every practice for the next five years. "So after practice, Kaner and I stayed on the ice and just sent one-timers back-and-forth for a bit and he helped me feel comfortable pretty quick. Some of the guys were noticing and Kaner told me that the coaches had pulled him aside and said, 'Man … why don’t you go teach this kid to shoot the puck?' So I wasn’t doing the things that had gotten me to that point. I’d been a scorer my whole life, but now that I was trying to make the NHL, I felt like I needed a different dimension in my game. I remember we were practicing in South Bend, Indiana, on the Notre Dame campus - Kaner actually told me this story a few years ago from his perspective - and basically my game wasn’t in a good spot. "But I had a bit of a hard time at that camp. "When I came to camp in 2017, I felt like I was in a place to succeed. Get updates on what's happening in the Chicago area to your inbox.
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