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BUFFALO http://www.pantherscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-christian-mccaffrey-jersey , N.Y. (AP) Sabres forward Evander Kane doesn’t need a fortune teller to understand he’s down to his final days in Buffalo when acknowledging he expects to be dealt before the NHL’s trading deadline on Monday.”Yeah, if that’s the answer you guys are waiting for,” Kane told reporters following practice Wednesday. ”I’m not going to get into what’s been talked about or what hasn’t been talked about, but I think you guys are all pretty smart hockey people.”The only uncertainty for Kane is when the trade will take place and where he’ll be headed.Article continues below ...”I think the hardest part is the unknown,” Kane said, in preparing to join the Sabres for a two-game road trip starting at Detroit on Thursday. ”I’m going to play as hard as I possibly can tomorrow night. And then once the move is made, then we can reflect for that day. But I’ve got a job to do.”The 26-year-old is expendable for a variety of reasons, starting with his contract which runs out after this season. The Sabres are rebuilding under a new regime, headed by first-year general manager Jason Botterill, and the team has expressed no interest in re-signing Kane, who is expected to command a hefty price tag in free agency this summer.Kane’s 19 goals in 60 games rank second in Buffalo. He’s scored 20 or more in each of his previous two years since being acquired by the Sabres in a multi-player trade with Winnipeg in February 2015.The 26-year-old is in his ninth NHL season after being selected No. 4 by the then-Atlanta Thrashers in the 2009 draft.Kane and New York Rangers forward Rick Nash are considered the two top players available on the trade market with the NHL playoff races entering the stretch run.The Sabres are on the outside looking in. They sit last in the East and are all but mathematically assured of extending their longest playoff drought to a seventh season.Also on the block in Buffalo are goalie Robin Lehner Baker Mayfield Jersey Elite , forward Benoit Pouliot and defenseman Josh Gorges, all of whom are in the final year of their contracts.Coach Phil Housley is braced for a roster shake up and focused solely on preparing his team to play.”Number 1 is getting ready for Detroit,” Housley said. ”That’s what we control is to get our players ready. And Jason (Botterill) is going to do the best job he can moving forward here.”Kane’s pending departure marks a dramatic setback for a franchise that under former GM Tim Murray pinned its hopes on him being part of its long-term future after finishing last in both 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.Murray dealt defenseman Tyler Myers, forward Drew Stafford, two prospects and a first-round pick in acquiring Kane, defenseman Zach Bogosian and prospect goalie Jason Kasdorf. And it made no difference to Murray that Kane would miss the final two months of the season after having shoulder surgery.Though Kane has produced on the ice when healthy and been active in working with Buffalo-area charitable groups, he has been questioned for his immaturity off the ice.Kane has had two legal run-ins, including being arrested for grabbing three women by the hair and neck during an altercation at a Buffalo bar in June 2016. The charges were eventually dismissed on condition Kane stayed out of trouble as part of a plea agreement in which a prosecutor described the player’s behavior as ”arrogant, boorish and surly, but not criminal.”Earlier in the year, the Sabres suspended Kane for one game for missing practice a day after pictures surfaced on social media of the player celebrating in Toronto after attending the NBA All-Star Game.Kane has been inconsistent this season. After scoring 15 goals and 18 assists in his first 35 games http://www.clevelandbrownsteamonline.com/baker-mayfield-jersey , he has just four goals and two assists in his past 25.NOTES: Center Jack Eichel was spotted carrying a stick and walking without a protective boot for the first time since spraining his right ankle in a 4-2 win at Boston on Feb. 10. Housley had no update on Eichel’s status. … G Robin Lehner will start against Detroit after missing one game with a hip injury.— GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Nashville Predators grew so accustomed to winning, losing on successive nights proved quite the disappointment to them.Though not quite as displeased as Arizona Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet was following what might have been his team’s worst performance — and worst effort — of the season.The Predators and Coyotes play Thursday night at Gila River Arena, with each coming off losses in games in which they fell behind 3-0 in the first period. The biggest difference was how they responded to being down so early.Article continues below ...The Predators (13-4-1) came back from their three-goal deficit to take a 4-3 lead in San Jose on Tuesday, only to lose 5-4 on two goals 13 seconds apart in the third period by Joe Pavelski and Joe Thornton. It was Nashville’s first road loss in regulation this season.“Lousy first (period), good second, back and forth in the third,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “We made some mistakes at the end that cost us, and we had plenty of looks and chances to make it 5-3 or even go back to tie it again, but it didn’t bounce for us.”That loss came one night after the Predators lost on the road for the first time this season, 2-1 to the Anaheim Ducks in a shootout. Prior to that loss Authentic Baker Mayfield Jersey , they had won five in a row overall and were 8-0-0 on the road.“We came in after the first (period Tuesday) and knew it was not acceptable for the best team in the league,” said forward Rocco Grimaldi, who scored his first NHL goal against the Sharks. “We came out and we showed why we’re on top right now.”Nashville still has the NHL’s best record even after losing on back-to-back nights.The Coyotes (8-8-1) had a similar start Tuesday in Detroit, but a dissimilar finish.They trailed 3-0 after the Red Wings scored three goals in slightly over seven minutes — and then it got worse. They fell behind 6-0 in the third period before Lawson Crouse scored to prevent Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard from getting his 25th career shutout.The Coyotes went 1-2-1 on a four-game game road trip, and they’ve lost four of five since winning five in a row. But it was their effort, or lack thereof, in Detroit that most disturbed Tocchet.Rather than responding the way the Predators did, the Coyotes seemed indifferent most of the night.“It was just lackluster by some guys. I don’t know if it was the day off (Monday), I don’t know if it was the end of the trip and guys wanted to go home,” Tocchet said. “But it’s inconsistent hockey the last two weeks and it’s something we’re going to have to stamp out really quick.”Tocchet especially didn’t like his players’ decision making, or at least the slowness of it.“You’ve got to make your decisions quick Greg Joseph Jersey Elite ,” Tocchet said. “When you’re not focused and you’re not sharp, (your) hockey IQ goes. That’s one of my pet peeves, not having hockey IQ. That’s a tough one for me.”Maybe it’ll help that the Coyotes are beginning their second five-game homestand in three weeks’ time. They went 4-1-0 on the last one, and this one runs until the Sunday after Thanksgiving.Fourth-line forward Austin Watson is eligible to return to the Predators on Thursday now that his 18-game suspension for domestic assault has ended.However, the Predators are uncertain about defenseman P.K. Subban’s status for the final game of a five-game road trip in which they’ve gone 2-1-1. He left Monday with an apparent injury only to return in the second period, but then played only 7 minutes, 7 seconds on Tuesday before leaving the game and not returning.Filip Forsberg leads Nashville with 12 goals and 18 points, while Clayton Keller has five goals and 12 points. Goalie Pekka Rinne was 2-0 last season as Nashville won two of three from the Coyotes, and he is 18-7-2 with a 2.02 goals-against average in his career against them.