from Gary Lawless of the Winnipeg Free Press,

For sale: One left-winger with a bad shoulder and a bad attitude. Line forms to the left.

What do you mean you want to exchange pesos for dollars? And no, we don’t take rubles.

Kane’s agent Craig Oster let the first bit of air out of the tire Friday evening, admitting there had been talks about potential trades over the past few seasons. Other sources later confirmed the information.

While the news Kane had asked to be moved was no shocker, the timing of this leak piles on to a soap opera that opened this week with the player playing 20 minutes in Calgary and ended Friday with Kane electing to have shoulder surgery.

In between, Kane broke the team dress code at a meeting in Vancouver and then had his clothes thrown into a tub of water by veteran teammate Dustin Byfuglien. A healthy scratch and three days of screaming headlines and Kane had enough.

When, according to his agent, surgery was again offered as a solution to a previous shoulder injury, Kane said yes and ended his season.

Kane, according to his agent, had been offered surgery prior to the season. The fact he only opted to go forward with the operation after Tuesday’s doings is impossible to ignore.

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