Toews Says He and the Guys Support Kaner

[rinnia]

For Toews, that also meant going to bat for teammate Patrick Kane, who was criticized for his actions in May in Madison, Wis

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[ruggerdavey]

Awww, of course Tazer is sticking up for Kaner, and while talking about - basically - how charasmatic Kaner is (a compliment!) and bringing up the logical point that he is FAR from being the only 23 or 24 year old running around drinking and "having a good time."

[quiet000001]

Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying that Kaner maybe needs to clean up his act or is possibly a total asshat when drunk (I don't think you can necessarily say yay or nay on that point just from, like, Deadspin) a lot of the stuff that people are all OMG!!!! about with him are like - when I went to university in the UK, that would've been a pretty normal thing to see. Not necessarily every night, but on weekends after finals or before breaks or basically whenever there was a good excuse to party it up a bit more than normal? Oh yeah. Drunk and being a moron? Normal. Drinking too much and being even more of a moron and looking like you fell asleep on the floor of a restroom? Normal. Etc

[ruggerdavey]

Exactly. When you've got, idk, some twitter pics and a deadspin article, that is certainly not the whole picture. And, even here in the states, the drunk and acting stupid thing is DEFINITELY not uncommon. One would hope you'd be over it by the time you'd graduated from college, but we all know that's not the case. And since Kaner never even went to college and has been away from home and playing hockey since he was 14 or 15, it's a lot harder to find a spot where you say "okay, and now I need to grow up because people expect different things of me now."

And, yeah, it's hard to say that he "has a problem" when we certainly do not have a complete picture.

[quiet000001]

I actually commented to someone when the Cinco de Kaner thing happened that I kind of wonder if in some ways it would have been better for Kaner if he'd gone the Toews route with actually playing for a college team for a year or two - because then there would've been a pretty clearly defined period where doing that kind of stuff is not exciting at all and he maybe would've gotten it out of his system or had a better environment in which to figure out his limits and how and when to party without it turning into a complete media disaster