3 greatest moments in Patrick Kane’s Blackhawks career

Honorable Mentions

Patrick Kane has had too many great career moments to name them all.

Calder Trophy

Patrick Kane made his NHL debut in his first eligible season at 19 years old. He scored 21 goals and had 51 assists for 72 points which is a lot for a teenager in the NHL. As a result, he won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s Rookie of the Year. That was just a sign of what was to come.

400 goals

With absolutely no fans in the stands because of COVID-19, Patrick Kane scored his 400th career goal against the Detroit Red Wings. He became the 100th player in the history of the league to reach this milestone.

It was a great toe drag and shot to get the puck in the net. So few players reach this milestone but Patrick Kane was one of the elite ones that got to do it. Of course, this was a great moment in his career.

1000 points

An even more important statistical milestone is reaching 1000 points. Having that many points means that you were a great player yourself but you were also capable of making others around you better as well. Kane was an elite shooter and an elite passer with the Hawks.

Against the Winnipeg Jets, sitting on 999 career points, Patrick Kane found a puck and fed it to Ryan Carpenter who then passed it across to Brandon Saad who didn’t miss. That made Kane the 90th player in NHL history to reach 1000 career points and only the fourth Blackhawks.

Starting the 17 seconds sequence

Everyone remembers the “17 seconds” from the 2013 Stanley Cup Final. With a 3-2 series lead down a goal to the Boston Bruins, the Chicago Blackhawks scored two goals in 17 seconds to win the Stanley Cup in regulation.

Bryan Bickell tied the game off a feed from Jonathan Toews. David Bolland scored a wicked goal off a rebound created just a few moments later. However, many forget that Patrick Kane started the whole sequence.

Kane weaved through the neutral zone to get a shot on Tuukka Rask and the rebound went into the corner. His quickness to get to it and battle with a Bruins defender to find Toews is what ultimately led to the goal. It was a sensational play by Kane.

This is one of the greatest players in NHL history. He will go down as the greatest American-born player ever and he is already the best Blackhawk of all time. He still has a lot of hockey left in him but he would make it to the Hall of Fame if he retired today.