PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Patrick Kane might be the greatest American hockey player of all time. His long list of accomplishments includes three Stanley Cup championships and an Olympic silver medal.

“The one thing that’s kind of missing is a gold in best-on-best, right?” Kane said at the United States Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp on Tuesday. “It would be fun to have that opportunity.”

Obviously, the 36-year-old forward badly wants to make the United States roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. But he doesn’t want to make it for who he has been. He wants to make it for who he still is.

“I don’t want that to be a thing, either, where you’re getting selected for the team because of all that stuff,” Kane said. “You want to be selected for the player you are and what you ca

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