Playing in a career-high 78 regular season games with San Jose and
Buffalo
during the 2017-18 season, Kane scored 54 points (29 goals, 25 assists) and posted 82 penalty minutes. He finished tied for second in the NHL in shorthanded goals with four. Kane joined
Jamie Benn
and
Corey Perry
as the only players to finish with at least 15 goals, 150 shots and 50 penalty minutes in each of the last seven seasons.
Of NHL players to score 20 or more goals last season, Kane's 82 penalty minutes ranks second and no NHL forward with 150 or more hits scored more goals than Kane (159 hits). He finished fourth in the NHL in shots with 307 and has not finished lower than 11th in shots on goal in the last three seasons. Additionally, Kane and Brent Burns were the only teammates to finish amongst the NHL's top-5 shot leaders last season.
From his 2009 draft class, only
John Tavares
and
Matt Duchene
have scored more goals than Kane while his point total ranks fifth amongst the draft class. Since Kane entered the NHL during the 2009-10 season, only
Alex Ovechkin
averages more shots per game (4.57) than Kane (3.57, tied for second).
In 574 career NHL games with
Atlanta/Winnipeg
, Buffalo and San Jose, Kane has posted 354 points (186 goals, 168 assists) and 671 penalty minutes. He has reached the 20-goal plateau four times in his career, including each of the past three seasons, and posted career highs in goals (30), assists (27) and points (57) during the 2011-12 campaign with Winnipeg, becoming the NHL's youngest 30-goal scorer that season (20 years old).
Internationally, Kane has represented
Canada
at several tournaments, including the World Championship (2010-12), World Jr. Championship (2009 - Gold Medal), Hlinka Memorial Tournament (2008 - Gold Medal), and the World Hockey U-17 Challenge (2008). He was a Memorial Cup Champion with the
Vancouver Giants
of the
Western Hockey League
in 2007.
The six-foot-two, 212-pound native of Vancouver, British Columbia, was originally drafted by Atlanta in the first round (fourth overall) of the
2009 NHL Draft
. He was acquired by San Jose from Buffalo on Feb. 26 for a first round selection in the 2019 NHL Draft, Forward
Danny O'Regan
and an additional conditional 2019 or 2020 draft selection.
