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Evander Kane Talks Winnipeg

10/26/2015 at 4:34pm EDT

from Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press,

Kane gave a recent interview to The Hockey News writer Ken Campbell that will be published today in the magazine in which he aired numerous grievances with Winnipeg and its Jets....

Kane confirmed in the story what was eventually known, but not before he was traded -- each summer he spent as a member of the Jets, he asked for a trade. When asked about it while he was in Winnipeg, Kane talked around it or inferred denying it.

"Something I asked for a long time finally came to fruition," Kane said in the THN interview. "Yeah, I asked for a trade every off-season in Winnipeg."

To be fair, the Jets also obfuscated on the trade-request matter back then.

In his story, Campbell writes: "Truth is, though, Kane was never a good fit in Winnipeg, even in his first season there where he scored 30 goals.... Every unpaid traffic ticket, every rumour about him skipping out on restaurant bills and having his girlfriend with him on the road, every time he posed for pictures with a wad of money attached to his ear, every time he shaved YMCMB into his scalp became a major cause celebre in the league’s smallest market."

Why was that?

Kane believes racism is relevant to his story, a charge he first leveled more than two years ago in an interview with THN.

"There are lots of guys I could point to that everybody knows publicly who have done a lot worse or been accused of doing a lot worse things than I have," Kane said in the interview. "But they don’t look like me. They don’t look like me.

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Ken Campbell of The Hockey News with the article.

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