Patrick Kane's Offseason Begins With A Black Eye, Taking A Girl Home From A Club

Oh Kaner. We take a lot of shit for giving you shit, but you keep giving us shit to give you shit for.

Kane went home to Buffalo after the Blackhawks were eliminated, but returned to Chicago last week because he missed "the life." That would entail getting a black eye under mysterious circumstances, attending a Bulls game, and bringing home a woman who got a little camera-happy.

Most of this comes via 25Stanley, which has a fairly exhaustive chronicling of Kane's recent exploits. Problem is, it's in French. But I think we can sort this one out.

On May 4th, Kane attended the Bulls' game 2 against Atlanta, where he was photographed with a shiner. It had been more than week since he played his last game, so the question immediately becomes where he got it. Sure, he was sporting a cut after going face-first into the glass in game 7, but that hasn't stopped rumors about something going down at Cuvée nightclub. Without photographic evidence, we won't pursue that line.

You know who understands the value of photographic evidence? This young lady, a senior at Illinois. She met Kane at Underground, the self-proclaimed "sexiest nightclub in Chicago," and left with him. To prove it to her friends (because who would believe Patrick Kane would drink and party, right?), she took a few photos of a sleeping Kane. And to end any doubt, she fished through his bags and found his boarding pass:

We won't use the pejorative "P-B" term, but Patrick Kane is like the Stanley Cup: every girl in Chicago gets a day with him.

LES VACANCES DE PATRICK KANE [25Stanley.com]