They even developed a pregame warmups tradition where both of them would feed each other two one-timers before leaving the ice. It was fun building that chemistry and friendship over the years."įrom that point forward, Kane and DeBrincat constantly worked on that after practices. Now that's one guy you don't need to teach how to shoot the puck. "I don't know if he was nervous or what, but I remember just kind of talking to him about it. "I remember there was a time where Quenneville came up to me and was like, 'You gotta teach this kid how to shoot the puck.' And I'm looking at him, he scored three 50, 60-goal seasons in the OHL.
"I don't remember the first time specifically," Kane said. On Tuesday, I asked Patrick Kane if he recalled the story. Man Charged With Stabbing, Dismembering Person After Remains Were Found in Austin Alleys And we basically did that nearly every practice for the next five years. "So after practice, Kaner and I stayed on the ice and just sent one-timers back-and-forth for a bit and he helped me feel comfortable pretty quick. Some of the guys were noticing and Kaner told me that the coaches had pulled him aside and said, 'Man … why don’t you go teach this kid to shoot the puck?' So I wasn’t doing the things that had gotten me to that point.
I’d been a scorer my whole life, but now that I was trying to make the NHL, I felt like I needed a different dimension in my game. I remember we were practicing in South Bend, Indiana, on the Notre Dame campus - Kaner actually told me this story a few years ago from his perspective - and basically my game wasn’t in a good spot. "But I had a bit of a hard time at that camp. "When I came to camp in 2017, I felt like I was in a place to succeed. Get updates on what's happening in the Chicago area to your inbox.
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