Did you know that Patrick Kane...

-       grew up in a family with season tickets to the Buffalo Sabres?

-       did like to wear enemy sweaters in the hockey-arenas even though he also did cheer for the Sabres?

-       did start to play hockey at age seven?

-       as a boy he once played in seven different teams in just a year?

-       did win the following individual awards:

OHL-All-Rookie-Team 2007

OHL-First-All-Star-Team 2007

OHL Rookie of the Year 2007

Canadian Major Junior First All-Star-Team 2007

Canadian Major Junior Rookie of the Year 2007

NHL All Rookie Team 2008

NHL Calder Memorial Trophy 2008

NHL First All-Star Team 2010

Played in NHL All-Star-Games 2009, 2011, 2012

-       is not always an angel off the ice?

-       did score 145 points in just 58 games in the OHL in the season 06/07?

-       in his time in Major Junior quite often was on the power play for the full two minutes?

-       was told by former Chicago Black Hawks GM, Dale Tallon – now GM with the Florida Panthers – more than a month before the draft that he will take him first overall?

Zurich, 28th October 2012 / Thomas Roost