"I JUST WANTED TO LET HIM KNOW THAT I'M GOING BACK TO THE BLACKHAWKS (...) I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT TO HEAR FROM HIM BUT IT WAS COOL - HIS RESPONSE, JUST TO SAY, THAT'S AWESOME, I WISH I WAS DOING THAT, I'M DEFINITELY JEALOUS OF YOU (...) I'M LIKE HEY, MAYBE YOU'LL COME BACK FOR A YEAR! HE'S LIKE, 'I'M THINKING ABOUT IT.'"
Kaner about his conversation with Jonny on the Pardon My Take Podcast
& other tidbits from the podcast:
every cup team had a different song, he's been listening to the 2015 cup playlist after his trade & the 2013 song "wake me up" by the bee gees
about his first game back at the uc: "i thought the door was probably closed (on returning to the hawks) (...) you're almost trying to stick it to the team that, i don't wanna say didn't want you but they were going in a different direction"
danny wirtz called him as soon as free agency opened, it was an emotional call & "kyle has been awesome"
says it was cool to see the us hockey team win gold, especially larkin and the hughes brothers and they were texting and calling him afterwards
"they all had their moments" when asked what his favorite cup was
"we had a special group, that core group of players - myself, Tazer, Sharpy, Seabs, Duncs, Hossa, Crawford, Hjalmarsson, like those guys - it was a special group"
lots of reminiscing about games from the cup runs
when he first came to chicago, there were 3000 people at pre-season games and he and some teammates would sit in the crowd and not get bothered by one person
his dad would have been happy to see him play for the sabres but actually wanted him to go to chicago: "he's got a good life here, he knows all the security guys at the united center", says his dad didn't go to as many games in detroit because he wasn't as comfortable
about being a veteran on the hawks: "i want these guys to treat me like a teammate, i wanna be friends with these guys", wants to be yelled at if he turns the puck over lol
skated with a lot of the guys before, feels like he knows them well
has been trying to develop some chemistry with frank nazar when they skated together & calls him "frankie"
bedard reached out to tell him he'd love to have him in chicago
he' doesn't have superstitions, just sticks to his routines
wants to bring back playoff mario kart (names hjalmarsson as the best mario kart player and confirms that he was king boo, seabs was browser, jonny was waluigi, sharpy was princess peach)
"buffalo would have been fun too but my heart was definitely here"
his longevity comes from his love of the game, thinks he can still play after his 2-year contract, is excited to have a 2-year deal
“I could make comments about a lot of the guys. J-Mo is this elite defenceman and just his playmaking ability, his ability to skate with the puck, I think his competitive nature really stood out. Scheif, I think you know he's in a lot of ways I compared him to Kaner (Patrick Kane), he's bigger and maybe stronger, a little bit faster, but the way he approached the game so methodically, the way he thinks about the game, and he doesn't really have to rely on his size or speed too much, because he's so good at managing his space with the puck,” said Toews.
Jonathan Toews gets asked about his teammates on the Jets and to no one's surprise finds a way to make it about Patrick Kane (x)
Kane: I'm pretty happy here right now. The better question is will you ever play in [your hometown of] Winnipeg? They booed you when we played there.
Toews: Yeah, I got booed in my hometown. So I'm not [signing there] anytime soon. People told me I would get cheered because fans did that for some of the former Jets players, but I never played for the Jets, so I didn't know what to expect. The Winnipeg fans, especially the ones in the top concourse ... they're crazy. So I didn't rule out the possibility that people might jump on that bandwagon and start booing me. My own buddies were probably the ones getting the boos going.
Dec 10, 2013 - Kane and Toews face off
2025/2026- noted Winnipeg Jets player not getting booed anymore
