WINNIPEG - Evander Kane did not mince words about his time as Winnipeg Jet in an article in the November 9 issue of the Hockey News.
"It's a new beginning, and it's something I was looking for a long, long time ago," Kane told The Hockey News.
He will say how he asked for a trade every three summers he was still with Winnipeg.
Kane, along with Zach Bogosian, treated Buffalo Sabres during 2014/15 season. Winnipeg has Tyler Myers and Drew Stafford as part of the deal.
Racism also raised in the article.
"There are plenty of guys who would target everyone publicly known to have done much worse or been accused of doing things far worse than we have," Kane told The Hockey News. "But they do not look like me. They do not look like me."
While in Winnipeg, Kane made headlines for using a homophobic insult on Twitter, posting pictures of a stack of money to the ear, and one of him doing pushups with money in his back, not paying a traffic ticket.
In the article, Kane said he felt the Jets did not support.
"I just do not feel like (the Jets) had my back at all. It would have been easier to just crush and put to bed. It just became kind of a big thing," he told The Hockey News.
Kane also refers to the incident when he came to practice wearing a tracksuit and Dustin Byfuglien and other players, threw his clothes in the shower.
"I'm sacrificing my body playing through the pain, doing everything possible to help the team meet boys feel that they have my back," Kane was quoted.
On Sunday night, Kane suffered a knee injury that will sideline him for four to six weeks.
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