Kane joins Giants’ Ring of Honour
Posted March 7, 2012 11:01 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The Vancouver Giants are adding former standout Evander Kane to the team Ring of Honour tonight before a crucial home game with the Tri City Americans, joining Brett Festerling, Andrej Meszaros, Mark Fistric, Gilbert Brule, Milan Lucic, and Cody Franson.
Kane, whose Winnipeg Jets visit Vancouver to play the Canucks tomorrow, played 134 regular season games with the Giants, scoring 75 goals and 65 assists for 135 points and won a Memorial Cup with Vancouver as a 15 year old.
“Evander was here such a short time, but I think in that short time he really established himself as one of the all-time top Giants as far as skill and determination,” says Giants coach Don Hay.
The Vancouver native still holds the Giants’ franchise mark for goals in a single season with 48 and has set career highs in goals (26) and points (46) with the Jets this season. This is his third season with the organization that relocated to Winnipeg this summer. Nine-hundred Evander Kane bobblehead dolls will be handed out to fans at tonight’s game.
Tonight’s game with the Americans is a key stretch-drive matchup. The Giants, with just six games left in the regular season sit in fifth place in the WHL’s Western Conference and already know that they will face the Spokane Chiefs to open the playoffs. It has yet to be decided which team will have home ice advantage in the series.
Game time is 7 p.m.
