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The big, bad Buffalo Sabres were in town Wednesday night, and if that sounds like a weak motivational tool, you haven’t been paying attention to Patrick Kane’s scoring slump.
The Blackhawks have tried all sorts of methods to locate the missing Kane. Moving him from center back to right wing. Reuniting him with Jonathan Toews. Intimating he might want to play harder, especially on defense.
They thought a Jan. 5 trip to Philadelphia might help. It was the team’s first visit there since Kane’s Stanley Cup-winning goal in June 2010. Surely the good vibes were still there, waiting to jump start his dead engine. Right?
He scored in that game.
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