I don’t believe that Patrick Kane has any intention of signing with the Detroit Red Wings. I’m certain that, under the right circumstances, Kane would like to rejoin DeBrincat, but as Kane is recovering from hip resurfacing surgery, and, as he’s attempting to win a Stanley Cup, sliding into the lineup of the Red Wings at or around the middle of the 2023-2024 season just doesn’t make much sense to me.
In my opinion, he’s going to a team that can contend for a Stanley Cup championship, and that’s not this year’s Red Wings team (though stranger things have happened).
Anyway, Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff examined three occasions in which the Red Wings signed former Hart Trophy winners as free agents, and it should not come as a surprise that all three additions propelled the Red Wings to Stanley Cup Final appearances.
And here’s what Duff has to say about the Kane rumors:
Will Patrick Kane be joining the Detroit Red Wings? At this stage, such talk is nothing more than mere speculation. However, what is known is this – when the Red Wings are adding a player who won the Hart Trophy with another NHL club, it’s always a move leading to happy endings in Hockeytown.
Kane was the Hart Trophy winner with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015-16. Published reports are indicating that he would have some interest in reuniting with his old Chicago teammate Alex DeBrincat in Detroit. Will it happen? Who knows?
What is certain is that on three previous occasions, the Red Wings were adding a past Hart Trophy winner from another team to their lineup. And in each instance, those additions were leading to Stanley Cup final appearances for Detroit.
Duff continues, discussing Andy Bathgate, Brett Hull and Dominik Hasek coming to Detroit; as for the Kane stuff, again, stranger things have happened, and he does have a history here as having played for Detroit Honeybaked (while being billeted by Pat Verbeek’s family) and the NTDP, I just don’t see him signing here.
