When Evander Kane speaks around trade deadline season, reporters hope their recording devices and smart phones ready for whatever will fly out of his mouth.
One of the most sought after rentals at this year's deadline, the 26-year-old has been the centre of attention in Buffalo over the last little while amidst speculation that the Sabres are trying to unload Kane for a premium package.
On Wednesday, the No. 6th ranked player on TSN Hockey's trade bait list took control of the Sabres scribes in what could be one of his final big scrums with the Buffalo media. Kane was asked about dealing with the trade rumours, and gave an honest and fun response on how he follows all the speculation by reading his name through his (money) phone on the internet.
As Evander noted, it's easy to be fooled by fake accounts of TSN hockey insiders like Darren Dreger and Pierre LeBrun during this time of season.
If you need to know all the breaking news and up to the second trade information during #TradeCentre, the best way to find out about deals is undoubtedly Twitter. Make sure insiders like Bob McKenzie, Dreger and LeBrun have the blue check marks beside their username, because people love to stir the pot and make fake accounts by changing a simple letter in their username that can easily go unnoticed to the naked eye.
Turning on Twitter notifications from the insiders is one way to impress your friends on how quickly you find out about the breaking trades, without having to refresh your timeline every few minutes.
It should come as no surprise that players find out via social media that they've been traded before their general manager had the chance to call and inform them in today's instant age of information, as Kane pointed out.
If you were a professional athlete, would you able to resist searching your name on Twitter to see the type of trade proposals fans are composing with you in them?
Kane's production has fallen off of late, as he notched just four goals in his past 25 games, which could result in the Sabres in getting less in return than they hoped for after the sniper tallied 15 goals in his first 35 games of the season.
