Evander Kane expected to sign new contract in “as little as six hours”

There is so much happening, we don’t blame you for not keeping up. In case you somehow, someway missed all of the drama surrounding Evander Kane this past weekend… well… buckle up.

The now former San Jose Sharks forward had his contract terminated by the club after he reportedly left the team’s AHL affiliate San Jose Barracuda to fly home to Vancouver for the holidays despite testing positive for COVID-19. Kane was allegedly still in the quarantine phase of his illness but flew home against league protocol anyways and then flew back to San Jose a week later than he was scheduled for. In effect he dipped on his team to spend Christmas at home even while being COVID-19 positive and then stayed at home an extra week… just because? Once Kane arrived back in San Jose he was informed that he had breached his contract and it would be terminated, resulting in him becoming a free agent.

This, of course, is on top of all the other drama that Kane has gotten himself into in the past calendar year. Without rehashing everything in order he has filed for bankruptcy, gone through a messy divorce and was suspended for 21 games for providing a fake vaccination card. To be perfectly frank, I’m surprised it took the Sharks this long to finally nail him on something that would enable them to terminate his contract.

While Kane and his agent Dan Milstein have officially filed a grievance over the termination of his contract, he is now technically a free agent after passing through waivers unclaimed. And while you’d like to believe that no team would want this guy, he is reportedly getting interest from team, including the Edmonton Oilers. GM Ken Holland did not close the doors on Kane, saying:

“I believe in second chances,” Holland said. “It’s hard to be perfect … we’re all people. We all make mistakes.

“Some make big mistakes, some make little mistakes, but it’s hard to be perfect.”

TSN NHL insider Pierre LeBrun has reported that there’s “lots of interest from a number of teams” in Kane on a one year free agent deal, and now former disgraced NHL referee Tim Peel (yes, you know the name) has apparently become an NHL insider and reports that: according to his sources, “Kane situation, they are confident that a deal could be done in 24 hours and maybe as little as six hours.”

While it may be hard to believe Peel (or this crazy situation) he is reportedly close to Milstein and could have the scoop on this.

So, it doesn’t seem like we need to ask if this is happening, but rather when!