Hawks' Kane a cover boy for 'NHL 10'

Posted June 22, 2009 11:00 pm

By Tim Sassone

Hawks star Patrick Kane has earned the prestigious honor of being on the cover for the EA Sports "NHL 10" video game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Kane follows in the footsteps of previous cover boys Dion Phaneuf, Eric Staal, Alex Ovechkin, Vincent Lecavalier, Marcus Naslund, Joe Sakic, Jarome Iginla, Mario Lemieux, Owen Nolan, Chris Pronger, Eric Lindros, Peter Forsberg and John Vanbiesbrouck.

Kane and Vanbiesbrouck are the only American-born players to be on the cover. Kane also is the youngest cover athlete.

"It's pretty special for me to be on the cover," Kane said. "I remember looking back at guys like Iginla and Pronger, guys like that that you really looked up to and saw them on the cover. And maybe one day you're dreaming that maybe you could be on the cover.

"There's tons of kids that dream like that, millions of kids that dream like that and not many kids that it happens to. There's players that get drafted, play in the NHL, but not many of them have this honor to get on the cover of the game like this."

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