PostSportsPlus: The prodigy years of Patrick Kane, the Rangers’ would-be playoff missing ingredient
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“He always had that aura around him of how great a player he was, how sick he was and how he dangled everyone, how he was so small but still so dominant. Just like he is today. Everyone knew this kid was special. We all knew it right away. His talent was just above and beyond anyone else.” “He would draw everyone and throw these bomb saucer passes. He’d dance around four guys. He wasn’t human. He sees everything that’s going on. He controls the game. Everything slows down. He sees openings that other people don’t. He’s like a chess player. He just thought the game at a different level. “No one will ever be Gretzky, but when it comes to the brain for the game, Patrick’s right at that second level right there of the top players of all time.
Kane began skating at 6. He picked up a stick at 7. He complained to his mother when his friends didn’t take street hockey games seriously. Parents in the local third grade league complained that Kane scored too frequently, prompting the league to ask him to leave. “He was so into hockey that his dad had him playing on three different teams in the same league, so he’d have three different jerseys in his bag and he’d drive him from one rink to the next,” Montgomery said. “He never had a weekend not playing hockey. There’s a ton of research that says you need to take time off and you should play different sports, but I saw firsthand that hockey was his life and it worked out pretty well for him.
“Anything we did, any competition, he had to win or he was very upset,” Geoffrion said. “I used to dominate him in ping-pong and he’d be furious. He’d usually make up some excuse, ‘Oh, you cheated over there. Oh, that didn’t count. That ball wasn’t in.’ It was like, ‘Dude, just take the “L” and move on.’”Kane was recruited by Donnie Harkins, coach of the HoneyBaked AAA hockey club near Detroit.
Hands-on lessons were part of the curriculum, while sharing a home with someone who racked up nearly 3,000 career penalty minutes. “The big hockey player was the thing, and the little skill player was going out of the game [in the early 2000s] because there was much more holding, grabbing, clutching,” Geoffrion said. “It was the program wanting to develop NHL players, thinking we should grab all these big kids and that’s gonna increase the probability of them making the NHL. Kaner didn’t fit that mold. But he had the ability to bring out the best in people and demand people to get on his level.
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