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Kane With A Good Gesture
by Paul on 01/07/10 at 08:28 AM ET
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from David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune,
From the moment Kane saw the kid wearing his jersey at Fenway Park as part of the Jan. 1 ceremony unveiling the U.S. Olympic hockey team, he got an idea. Kane was traveling to St. Louis with the Hawks but felt so moved by the gesture that he immediately contacted front-office personnel to begin tracking down the boy’s name.
A few phone calls later, and Kane arranged through the family to sign the jersey Thursday so the kid would have more than a memory to mark the occasion of making Kane’s Olympic moment official.
“The whole thing was very cool,” Kane said.
In a sports town where life has been decidedly uncool lately, how nice to see a local hero embrace his status and exceed expectations as a person and player. On the current landscape of Chicago superstars as 2010 begins, there is Kane and there is everybody else.
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Image repair anyone?
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 01/07/10 at 10:37 AM ET
I wanna know if the kid wearing the Drury jersey cried because everybody told him they misspelled “Gomez”.
Posted by Mike @ MHH from Oklahoma City, OK on 01/07/10 at 11:51 AM ET
Possibly, but a good gesture regardless
Posted by Performance Parts on 01/07/10 at 09:46 AM ET
Exactly. The kid doesn’t care why he did it or if there might be ulterior motives.
And if he makes more kids happy in an attempt to repair his image, then that’s a good deal for everyone.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/07/10 at 07:58 PM ET
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He even offered to buy the kid a cab ride to and from the game.
He knows this guy, you see…
Posted by HockeyinHD on 01/07/10 at 09:57 AM ET