Even in the eye of the media storm over his return to Winnipeg, former Jets forward Evander Kane insisted that Sunday’s tilt will be "just another game."
He uttered those three words multiple times on Saturday, speaking over an hour after his Buffalo Sabres wrapped practice at MTS Centre.
It isn’t just another game, of course, and Kane and his colleagues know it. That’s surely why Kane faced the local press in a crisp suit and patent leather shoes, while his Sabres teammates padded around the arena hallways in team athletic gear. It’s why he was faced with a swollen media scrum in the first place, asked to rehash the tale of what went wrong in Winnipeg.