{"id":446420,"date":"2026-01-30T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:34:10","slug":"kane-passes-modano-to-become-all-time-leading-u-s-born-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446420\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane passes Modano to become all-time leading U.S.-born scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicknamed Showtime, Kane had 1,225 points (446 goals, 779 assists) in 1,161 games for the Chicago Blackhawks from 2007-23. He won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015, plus the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the year in 2007-08, the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2012-13, and the Art Ross Trophy as NHL scoring champion and Hart Trophy as League MVP in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Buffalo, New York, Kane was selected No. 1 by Chicago in the 2007 NHL Draft. In addition to his time with the Blackhawks and Red Wings, he played 19 games for the New York Rangers in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019ll be the most recognized [American player] for a long, long time,\u201d Modano said recently. \u201cI mean, with the Stanley Cups and the personal awards and the numbers and the longevity and everything else, I think he will go down as one of the best, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can debate players from different generations, but bottom line, he\u2019s played a long time. He\u2019s put up some great numbers. Those Blackhawk runs were phenomenal, those playoff years that they had. They had quite an amazing team. Obviously, well deserving for whatever era he played in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicknamed Showtime, Kane had 1,225 points (446 goals, 779 assists) in 1,161 games for the Chicago Blackhawks from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-446420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}