Patrick Kane may be furious on Saturday morning.

One of the National Hockey League's top superstars may be waking up in a bit of a mood this morning upon learning about some of the things that went down late last night in the NHL.

It's been one of the worst kept secrets in the NHL this season that Chicago Blackhawks star forward Patrick Kane has been on the trading block, with Kane currently playing out the final year of his current NHL contract. The only issue here has been Kane's willingness to greenlight a move through the power of his no movement clause, a decision that may now be coming back to haunt the talented American forward.

Like it was no secret that Kane was likely to be moved, it was also a poorly kept secret that the Blackhawks star would have prefered to end up playing for the New York Rangers alongside former teammate Artemi Panarin. That bridge appeared to be burned though when the Rangers made a move to acquire St. Louis Blues star winger Vladimir Tarasenko, a move that Kane openly admitted he wasn't too thrilled about after it went down.

"It’s not like the happiest I’ve been to hear about a trade. ..." admitted Kane as per Blackhawks insider Mark Lazerus. "If things are going to happen, that was a team I was definitely looking at. It seems like they kind of filled their void and went ahead and made a deal."

That is obviously a problem for the Blackhawks as well considering that Kane could simply opt to not waive his no movement clause and play out the rest of his contract before becoming a free agent. While things were bad after the Tarasenko trade though, they may have gotten even worse on Friday night.

Earlier this week former NHLer Carlo Colaiacovo revealed during a radio interview that he believed Kane had one other team on his list of prefered destinations, the Toronto Maple Leafs.

"Based on people I've talked to, if Patrick Kane were to accept a trade somewhere, the two teams that I've been told are on his list are the Rangers and the Leafs..." said Colaiacovo on TSN 1050 Radio.

The Leafs of course have since pulled off a huge trade to acquire now former St. Louis Blues captain Ryan O'Reilly in a three team trade involving the Leafs, Blues and Minnesota Wild, once again effectively shutting the door on the possibility of a Kane trade.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Blues got such a solid return in both the deals with the Rangers and the Leafs, you might be inclined to think that Blues general manager Doug Armstrong was deliberately trying to sabotage Patrick Kane. While that is obviously not the case, it won't make Kane any happier when he wakes up in the morning.