Probe into Sharks star Kane’s alleged gambling won’t drag on

The NHL expects to conclude its investigation into Sharks forward Evander Kane by the start of training camp next month, league deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Monday in an email to this news organization.

Anna Kane, the player’s estranged wife, alleged in a series of social media posts Saturday that Kane had bet on NHL games and was “throwing games to win money.”

Kane strenuously denied the allegations Sunday in two posts on his Twitter account. He said he would cooperate with the NHL investigation.

Daly said Monday that Kane has not been suspended by NHL.

Per the league’s collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players’ Association, gambling by players on any NHL game is prohibited. League bylaws also contain a provision

that says any player betting on any NHL game — whether it is his team’s game or not — may be expelled or suspended by the commissioner.

Sharks training camp is expected to begin in the second half of September, likely the week of Sept. 20.

In her Instagram posts

Saturday, Anna Kane asked: “How does the NHL let a compulsive gambling addict still play when he’s obviously throwing games to win money? Hmm maybe someone needs to address this,” she wrote.

“Can someone ask (Commissioner) Gary Bettman how they can let a player gamble on his own games? Bet and win with bookies on his own games?” Instagram Stories disappear after 24 hours, so the messages are no longer on her page.

Anna Kane was moving out of the former couple’s white farmhousestyle house in Willow Glen on Monday. As a mattress and box spring were being loaded into a moving truck, she came briefly to the door but said she didn’t want to talk. Her 1-year-old daughter was in the background in the arms of a babysitter.

In January, Kane filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy listing assets totaling just over $10.2 million and his liabilities at over $26.8 million. According to the petition, he lost $1.5 million due to gambling “at casino and via bookie (sports betting).”

Kane, who turned 30 Monday, has four seasons remaining on the sevenyear, $49 million deal he signed with the Sharks in May 2018.

NHAT V. MEYER — BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FILE The San Jose Sharks’ Evander Kane (9) skates on the ice during their game against the Edmonton Oilers in the third period at the SAP Center in San Jose on Jan. 8, 2019.

NHAT V. MEYER — BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FILE Kane heads into the Pepsi Center before Game 6 of a second-round playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche in Denver on May 6, 2019.