Well, at least it wasn't a house...

http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/794681

Well, glad it's not the Avs problem to deal with I guess. :shake:

Dumb ass.

Patrick Kane may be in deep shit.

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/so...ation-20150806

Sources: Patrick Kane target of rape investigation
By Dan Herbeck | News Staff Reporter | Google+ , Lou Michel | News Staff Reporter ,
Tim Graham | News Sports Reporter | @ByTimGraham | Google+
on August 6, 2015 - 12:15 PM, updated August 6, 2015 at 3:51 PM

Patrick Kane, the Chicago Blackhawks star who grew up in South Buffalo, is the target of a rape investigation by Hamburg police for an incident that occurred over the last weekend, two law enforcement sources have told The Buffalo News.

A local woman has accused Kane of a sexual assault, the sources said.

The law enforcement sources said the woman went to a hospital and tests using a rape kit were performed.

Kane, 26, has a home in Hamburg. He has not been charged with any crime.

The News also learned from a law enforcement official that at least one other local police agency has been asked to assist with the investigation, and the other police agency was told the investigation involves an allegation against Kane. The agency was told that Roseanne Johnson, chief of the Erie County District Attorney’s Special Victims Bureau, is the prosecutor assigned to the case.

On Wednesday, both Hamburg Police Chief Gregory G. Wickett and the Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the investigation.

Paul J. Cambria Jr., a defense lawyer who represented Kane in the past, declined to comment Thursday. When contacted Wednesday, Cambria said: “I have nothing to say.”

Cambria represented Kane in a 2009 case involving an altercation with a Buffalo cabdriver.

In that case, Kane and his cousin pleaded to disorderly conduct, a noncriminal violation, after the two were accused of assaulting a taxi driver in his cab on the morning of Aug. 9, 2009.

The National Hockey League said Thursday it was aware of the police investigation.

“We are aware of the police investigation and are following developments,” said the NHL’s Frank Brown, group vice president of communications.

The Blackhawks had a similar response: “We are aware of the matter and are in the process of gathering information. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.”

Kane is scheduled to bring the Stanley Cup to Buffalo this weekend as part of the Blackhawks’ victory celebration.

The News went to Kane’s Hamburg home Wednesday morning to seek his comment but was denied access by a man at the house who did not identify himself.

A reporter asked the same man working at the home if he could leave a card to speak with Kane but was denied and told to leave the property.

Two sources said Hamburg police officials have forbidden their officers and detectives from publicly discussing the investigation.

“We can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of a criminal investigation until such a time as a person is charged with a crime,” said Hamburg Police Chief Gregory G. Wickett.

Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III used very similar language when asked about an investigation.

“We neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of an investigation until such time as someone has been charged with a crime,” Sedita said.

Wickett denied The News access to the police blotter for the weekend but suggested The News file a Freedom of Information Law request.

The News presented him with two FOI requests, one seeking complaints or reports filed with the department for a specific period of time and the other seeking any complaints or reports involving Kane for that same period of time.

But it may be some time before The News can see whether a complaint was filed. The town has 20 days to accept or reject the request.

Would anyone on here like to join an established fantasy/dynasty league? The league has one opening, its a 20 team league, 40 roster players with 35 keepers and 5 from the draft. If that sounds good to anyone I can send a link to the league and the team you would take over, currently named the Boston Bruins, but you can change the name to any of the 10 NHL team names that are not taken.

I have to admit - the Avs' new third jerseys are pretty damn sweet:

http://i.imgur.com/8eglTn8.png

They're alright. Much better than their primary home/roads. Those things need to go ASAP, imo. One of, if not the, last Edge-piping victims still standing.

Side note, the Ducks' new thirds also leaked today:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/COU3YNKU8AAeF8j.jpg

Kane investigation is getting bizarre.

Attorney for the alleged victim is giving a presser saying the rape kit that was performed was stolen from police custody and placed at the alleged victims mothers doorstep. He's speculating that the evidence bag that was holding the rape kit was torn open and tampered with. He's asking for an independent investigation of law enforcement charged with storing the rape kit.

:spock:

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/7...e-kit-tampered

The attorney representing the accuser of Blackhawk Patrick Kane said at news conference Wednesday afternoon that the evidence bag containing the rape kit performed on the woman was anonymously delivered to the front door of her mother’s home Tuesday.

“This is no hoax,” attorney Thomas J. Eaonnou said. The evidence bag had been torn open and folded into small squares as if it were being thrown out.

What in the bloody hell is going on?

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...012036621.html

On Thursday night, Eoannou said he was no longer confident in the story he was told when the mother delivered the bag to him.

"I no longer have the confidence in the manner and means in which that bag came to my office,” he said. “I looked into it, and I decided to withdraw."

Eoannou said he was confident that the evidence bag was in fact a rape kit and was in fact from the Patrick Kane case. He just lacked the confidence that the events he laid out one day earlier were truthful.

“The manner in which is was presented to me, in which I received it, I’m uncomfortable, and thus I do not believe the version of events is accurate. I called this press conference to let everyone know my concerns and that I’m withdrawing from the case,” he said.

From the same article:
When asked if the alleged victim’s account of the events of Aug. 2, the date on which she said Kane sexually assaulted her in his Buffalo area home, should also be called into question, Eoannou said “not at all.”

“One has nothing to do with the other," he said. "One has something to do with someone other than my client.”

I'm assuming he thinks the mother is a nut bag who rigged a tampered rape kit...:shrug:

avs are my nhl team even though im from cali... haven't followed hockey for a long time.. and i love these.. wouldn't mind it being the new home jersey.

Probably should've looked further into it before he called a press conference and started waiving a rape kit around like it was a Terrible Towel demanding an independent investigation.

What's odd is he still believes that it's the rape kit from the case, but Kane's attorney states that all evidence, including the rape kit, remains in it's original packaging and is with the Erie County PD. That seems like an easy thing to corroborate.

There was a terrible article on sbnation about how Kane should be suspended right now, basically only because the rulebook apparently says he can be suspended and because not suspending him means the NHL thinks hockey is more important and rape can be ignored.

Hockey! PBJ

It's about time. I need another sport to take my mind off of the Chiefs suckage.

(Though I'm honestly a bit pessimistic about the Avs this year too.)

In for 100+ points from the Blues, along with another 1st round playoff exit.

PBJ PBJ PBJ



(Oh, wait... I'm a Leafs fan... This is going to be a long season :deevee:).

ROFL...right on cue, they're down on the Habs' first shot of the game.

I love NHL Gamecenter Live just to watch all the goofy Canadian TV commercials.

Don't know what to think, but I'd really hope the offense can rebound so that Tanguay and Iginla aren't leading scorers this season. Between the Royals being on tomorrow night and the Avalanche playing the Wild though, I'm thinking I won't find out for a few more days.

Such an awesome deal... $118 this year. PBJ

Yep. I didn't have a choice this year (cord cutting plus local cable-only channel carrying the Avs = GCL + SmartDNS), but I certainly don't mind having access to ALL of the games.

Booing Gary Bettman never gets old. LMAO

I like that he's at least embraced it.

I probably just don't usually watch the opening national TV game usually, but this is an incredible amount of time spent on televising a banner raising. I mean, the team should do it at the stadium, but I don't need to watch it for half an hour.

WHAAAAH. I'd love to see the Leafs raise a banner. 1st world problems.:rolleyes:

Huh? Why does that have anything to do with whether a ceremony celebrating that should be shown on national TV?

Accomplishments should be celebrated. It's what makes the Stanley Cup the best trophy of any of the major sports.
And sure, it's a nationally televised game but there are kids watching. and some may aspire to bore you for 30 minutes 20 years from now in the name of Hockey. Cut them some slack Jack.

Yay... hopefully it ends 10-0.

Suck it, Wild.

3 on 3 OT in Tampa.... like the shootout, it's fun to watch, but a gimmicky way to determine points. Would rather see a 5 minute 4 on 4 first... ease into the gimmicks a bit.

I hate the Wild. So very, very much.

Are you ****ing kidding me?! Couldn't sleep and just noticed on Google Now.

:clap:

The Preds got a win, not pretty in the 2nd and parts of 3rd but they eeked out the W. W-T-F A-V-S though holy hell.

Hell yea great start by Florida

4-0 **** yea!!!

Be careful. That's how I felt on Thursday. :sulk:

I'm about to head out to the Avs game. Hopefully they don't shit the bed again against Dallas.

Whelp.

Love seeing the Flyers get the shit kicked out of em

Damn.

Sucks I've had to sit and listen to the audio since Panther games are always blacked out

Ok. I feel better now

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Yeah, that was nice... after the facepalm start.

Gotta say, I love seeing Pred and Panther fans with back to back posts on a Chiefs board regarding the NHL. It just shows how underrated the NHL is on the national scale.

Hell, ESPN has it listed behind soccer on their banner. While it's always been NFL, NBA and MLB, ESPN always wants to put a barrier between the NHL and the other major sports. (Soccer. Golf, NASCAR, etc...)

It's treated as though it was a shitty sport with no fans. I don't get it and I don't get why the major networks don't jump on board, other than the fact that 7 of the 30 teams are based out of Canada. Is that the problem?

I watched a bit of Texas vs. Oklahoma College ball this morning with no rooting interest, and I thought if any NHL game had that type of production or hype it'd be sweeping the nation.

To this day I can't understand how the NHL hasn't taken over the MLB and NBA. It's a better product.
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As long as ESPN isn't televising games, it won't be any higher on their list... and NHL TV ratings are terrible, so it's not like they care.

I think the main thing is kids don't grow up playing hockey in the US, like other sports.

I agree though, the only thing the NHL lacks that Americans love is lots of scoring, but everything else is there... fast paced, physical, etc. And it does great at the gate, showing people do love it once they give it a chance.


I think it's great though.... Sunday Ticket for 16 weeks is what, $150, $200+? NBA League Pass is $200... GameCenter is $120 this year for one of the longest seasons in sports (and is better quality than espn3). Far fewer commercials than other sports... no commercials in OT, even for full 20 minute overtimes in the playoffs. And even those who rarely watch it say it has the best playoffs of any sport.

It's the best kept secret in sports and I hope it stays that way.

The Avs installed one of those crazy whole-ice projection systems this year. It was kind of crazy to see live. Here's their video of it if anyone's curious.

<iframe src="http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/embed?playlist=843944&site=avalanche" frameborder="0" width="640" height="395"></iframe>

Same shit, new season.
The Penguins can't score despite having all-world talent on the ice the majority of the time.

To be fair, Mike Smith stonewalled the Penguins in the 3rd period....but man, this looks like the same Penguins team from the middle of last season forward. I hope Mike Johnston is feeling the heat because it's getting goddamn ridiculous.

We have a good variety of fans on here, very good to see! A few seasons ago before the last lockout we had a Chiefs Planet Fantasy league that had 10-12 teams of CP members.

Those things are amazing.

I'm digging this 3 vs 3 OT shenanigans.

I haven't gotten to see one live yet, but it looks like a hell of a lot of fun based on the highlights.

0-3 now :(. Our D is absolute garbage. I'd yell for a coaching change, but with Ian Cole as our #1 defensive defenseman, I'm not seeing it really mattering except on the offensive side. Gotta outscore people.

It'll be interesting to see how teams adjust to it... the first few I saw were really crazy, and then I think it was the Sens/Canadiens that actually made it to a shootout the other night, which was a first.

It's a lot of ice to work with. I like it.

These past two years have been a bit weird working the Royals in to hockey and football season. Though it has been awesome! I was not much into hockey the last time the Royals were contenders for the post season. Just hope it keeps up! Pretty much sports on my TV 100% of the time right now.

I'm digging this on 3 on 3 overtime. First time the Blues have been in it this year.

Gudbranson is a stud that is all

Mother****er Panthers/Avs is blacked out again....... :(

It's weird seeing Predator and Panther fans in this thread. I didn't think they existed. Happy to see it.:toast:

Love my Panthers! My dad and step bro used to take me to games all the time from 98-09, haven't been able to get out to BB&T since then. :cuss:

Good start so far power play goal from Trocheck. WTF FS-F making me watch on a choppy stream

I'm almost sad that I'm watching the Royals instead of the Avs; we don't often have multiple CPers who care about a game.

Hey get in the thread Thursday for Game 2, so I can't talk
Some trash ( jk Panther fans can't talk trash LMAO)

Eh, in recent years, the Avs can't either. :sulk:

Jeez Penalties plague this team almost every year

Hell of a save by LOUUUU!!!!!

Trocheck baby!!!

Yeah, I have it on my external monitor, but haven't had a reason to start watching it yet.... on paper, I'd ask HTF this team can't win games, then I watch and wonder HTF they won 50 a couple seasons ago.

Another power play goal!!

Campbell looking good!

The Avs appear to not be a good team this year. Again.

Well, the 17 people in the arena seem happy.

LMAO

And just like the Royals, the Avalanche begin their comeback.