With a scrum of media circled around him the day before the Buffalo Sabres were to take on the Jets, Evander Kane called his return to Winnipeg "just another game." And in some ways it was. Kane finished the Sunday matinee much like he has all season: with little mark on the final result -- a 4-2 Sabres win -- chipping in an assist on a late empty-net goal in 21 minutes and 32 seconds of ice time.
It was just his 14th point (8g, 6a) in 32 games this season – a scoring pace at which even Kane himself admitted was below his own expectations and as well as those from the Sabres, who traded for him and rearguard Zach Bogosian from the Jets last February.