The 2009 NHL Off-Season Thread

[izaaz101]

JEDE3 said:

Spire_VII said:

Desroko said:
Patrick Kane has reportedly been arrested for assaulting a cabbie in Buffalo. He allegedly took back his fare and punched the man after he didn't get the 20 cents in change he was owed. Kane, as you might remember, is a multimillionaire.

The Blackhawks are officially snakebitten.

it's strange that he decided to assault the guy over 20 cents....when he's gonna make more than 3$ million in the 09-10 season (btw he & his cousin, who was with him at the time, have been charged with second-degree robbery, fourth-degree criminal mischief and theft of services)

Source - http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Kane-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-robbin?urn=nhl,181695

Felony dropped. Also, the cabbie might not want to pursue this one all that much or risk having to file as a sex offender. Even the cabbies lawyer said it's been blown out of proportion.

Looking at the sequence of events, it seems likely that they were offered a payoff if they played the incident down.