Saturday with Patrick Kane and the Cup to be Quiet and Private

Patrick Kane requested that Saturday, Aug. 8, be his day with the Stanley Cup — in honor of his 88 jersey number. According to NHL tradition, everyone on the championship team gets to spend a day with the Cup.

He still gets the Cup, but the public events that would have taken place will no longer happen. A planned visit to a Buffalo Women’s and Children’s Hospital was cancelled, reports The Buffalo News. A local pizza place, Imperial Pizza, where Kane brought the Cup twice before for large hometown crowds, won’t get to celebrate a third time.

And SkyBar — a rooftop night spot where Kane met a woman who later told police she was raped at his house in Hamburg, NY — planned a private Saturday-night event with the Cup. SkyBar’s manager doesn’t know if that will happen now.

Instead, Blackhawks team sources told the Chicago Sun-Times, Kane is expected to keep the Cup at home with his family.

The criminal investigation is expected to take months, according to police, as they await results of forensic testing. The Associated Press confirmed on Saturday via a text from attorney Paul Cambria that he has been hired to represent the Blackhawks star. Cambria was his lawyer in 2009 when Kane assaulted a Buffalo cabbie over a 20-cent fare discrepancy.

Cambria’s past high-profile clients include Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, singer Marilyn Manson and rapper DMX.

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