88 reasons why I love Patrick Kane and hope he has the best birthday ever…
2. the way he calls his sister jackie “jooks”
3. that time he carried his mom’s suitcase for her
4. he wanted to go home about 4 hours into moving to detroit to join a new junior hockey league…but he stuck it out and was very successful there
5. he wears the number 88
6. becasue he is vocal about his support for women’s sports, particularly women’s hockey & soccer
7. he used to play dolls with his sisters
8. that time he cried on camera when his grandfather passed away
9. his ongoing 14-game point streak
10. he told artemi panarin “you, no good player”
11. cause he sang “rock you like a hurricane” at patrick sharp’s wedding
12. the way he looks at jonathan toews
13. the way he smiles at jonathan toews
14. that picture of him, toews, and his sisters
15. because he’s such a shamelessly patriotic american
16. when asked, he said “yeah, i’m a pretty emotional guy, you could say that”
17. the way he is protective over his sisters
18. how he refers to patrick sharp as his older brother
19. that time he sang sweet nothing with so much passion (actually the moment i fell in love with him)
20. because he actually stopped jared spurgeon of the minnesota wild in the handshake line when the blackhawks beat them to say “you’re a hell of a player, buddy, you’re going to be sick in this league”
21. the drunk patrick kane twitter account
22. he shamelessly prefers the star wars prequels to the original trilogy
23. he and his girlfriend, amanda grahovec, dressed up as anakin and padme for halloween
24. when he was DJing at rockit and decided to spin some 1D tracks
25. cause he plays as king boo in mario kart
26. he’s leading the league in points right now
27. he calls winnipeg “winterpeg”
28. taylor swift distracted him when he was on the ice, leading to a goal against
29. he was drafted in the fifth round of the OHL draft and worked so hard that he ended up being the number one overall pick of the NHL draft
30. he and jonathan toews shared a cab during the vancouver winter olympics
31. his heartbreaker goal celly
32. because he said “if guys are getting on me about my hits, i’ll say, well it’s tough to hit when you have the puck the whole game”
33. he goes to the jimmy buffet concert every time he wins the stanley cup
34. …and wears this seriously embarrassing yet somehow adorable parrot hat
35. he has only been in one fight in his entire hockey career, in high school—it was a draw
36. he writes the buffalo areacode (716) on his stick near the blade for good luck
37. when i went to watch game 4 of the 2015 stanley cup final, he was shooting the puck during warmups and missed the net, hitting the glass right in front of where i was standing. he looked at me, smiled like a doofus, and mouthed, “sorry!”
38. because he is such a hockey!nerd and knows which way every player shoots, what their corsi is, and is always right
39. he remembers, at the end of the day, that hockey is meant to entertain people and plays that way.
40. he yelled “SHOWTIME!” after scoring a sick goal during the playoffs
41. he has 4 overtime playoff goals, which ties him with the likes of wayne gretzky and bobby nystrom
42. because he invented the kaner shuffle
43. he scored a goal that ended a 49-year cup drought for the chicago blackhawks, and only he knew he did it
44. he looks like a small tiny pretty prince next to lebron james
45. that fantastic backhander he scored against minnesota on may 2, 2014
46. the fact that jonathan toews started calling him little peekaboo (as well as peeks, lil peeks, and peeksy)
47. the way he sang “free fallin’” so proudly and emotionally in front of like 50 people
48. he always manages to bring jonathan toews up somehow, especially if the question had nothing to do with him at all
49. he speaks so highly of his family and never forgets to mention how he wouldn’t be in the NHL without them
50. because he is the first american-born forward to win the conn smythe trophy as the MVP of the playoffs
51. he is afraid snakes :’)
52. he introduces himself as “pat kane,” which, i don’t know, it’s so gentle and welcoming
53. he calls jonathan toews his “partner in crime” and says “ i am fortune to have gone through everything i have with him”
54. he is very competitive when it comes to just about everything and once had a handwriting contest with his sister erica
55. his mom still cleans his apartment and does his laundry whenever she visits him in chicago
56. he drives a metallic purple hummer
57. he was nervous about surprising some kids because “what if they don’t know who i am? what do i do then?”
58. he drives around with his sister jackie whenever he’s home and blasts music and gets mcdonalds
59. he has a rug in the shape of an 88 in his apartment in chicago
60. his childhood bedroom legitimately looks like a patrick kane shrine
61. he retrieved the puck for both artemi panarin and trevor van riemsdyk when they scored their first NHL goals
62. because he’s not patrick kane jr, he’s patrick kane the second
63. when he won the stanley cup for the third and was being interviewed after he made sure to thank his parents first, then his sisters, then his girlfriend
64. every year, he takes his sisters on a massive shopping spree and lets them buy whatever they want
65. in 2014, when the kings eliminated the blackhawks in the western conference final, he still watched the stanley cup final because he just loves hockey that much
66. he likes only cheese on his pizza, which is the way it should be
67. he has a really uncomfortable yet adorable picture with miley cyrus
68. because i have an obscene amount of pictures of him on my phone
69. he had 69 text messages waiting for him on his phone after he scored a hat trick against vancouver in the playoffs
70. when asked if he was planning on marrying his longtime girlfriend amanda grahovec anytime soon, his face drained of color and he looked across the room and jonathan toews and he said “no, no, not until tazer does”
71. because he has at least 20 goals in each of first 8 (completed) seasons in the NHL and is the first american player to have accomplished that feat
72. 1,232,201 people voted for him to be in the 2015 nhl all star game
73. he tied game 5 against nashville in 2010 with 13.5 seconds to go
74. because he said that if he were to play in europe during the 2013 lockout, he’d like to play on the same team as jonathan toews
75. he’s won the “player of the year” award from the blackhawks alumni association 3 times
76. he and jonny sometimes open the connecting door between their hotel rooms so they can hang out
77. he worked his ass off to return the ice in 7 weeks instead of 12 after breaking his clavicle. he made it back just in time for the playoffs.
78. he scored 5 goals in a 4 game sweep against the minnesota wild in 2015 and scored in each game consecutively
79. he had 9 points in three elimination games against the kings in the 2014 western conference final
80. he can communication somewhat seamlessly with artemi panarin even though they don’t speak the same language!
81. when he went through a goal scoring drought during the 2015 stanley cup final, his best friend and captain jonathan toews told him “everything you touch tonight is going to turn to gold”
82. that same day, kaner ended his goal scoring drought in game 6 of the 2015 stanley cup final to go up 2-0 agains the lightning
83. he was sublimely happy for duncan keith when he won the conn smythe trophy
84. i have 88 unread emails right now and i refuse to check any of them
85. because his middle name is timothy
86. he said “i still get into arguments with jonathan because we both have strong opinions, and we’re both so comfortable with our relationship that we can argue and still have a healthy friendship”
87. he went to the taylor swift concert this past summer and kept the light up wrist band on for a while
88. he’s patrick fucking kane, do you need any other reason?
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