Sharks’ Kane accused of abuse by wife
SAN JOSE — The estranged wife of Evander Kane leveled accusations of domestic violence and sexual assault against the San Jose Sharks player in a restraining order application filed in Santa Clara County Family Court, according to a media report.
The filing by Anna Kane, per a Front Office Sports report, states that the hockey player violently forced her to have oral sex with him in March 2019 after a funeral for the former couple's daughter, who died after she was born in the 28th week of pregnancy. Days later, Anna Kane wrote, “Evander again forced me, against my will, to have sexual intercourse with him even though I had not healed.”
The filing says that when she protested, Evander Kane said, “you can't rape your wife.”
In the document, Anna Kane wrote that she had wine with some of the other players' wives at dinner before a playoff game in Las Vegas. After the game, which the Sharks lost, she wrote that Evander smelled alcohol on her breath and when they got back to their hotel room, he “began screaming at me and punching me on the upper side of my head above the hair line.
“Evander grabbed my blouse forcefully and pushed me into the wall of the room, slapping me across my face. Evander was screaming at me and threatened to hurt me even worse if I `disobeyed' him and had any drinks without him.”
Emails sent to the Sharks, the NHL, and to Kane's attorney in the divorce case requesting comment were not immediately returned.
The filing is just the latest chapter of an ugly separation that began July 16 when Anna
Kane first filed for divorce. Evander and Anna Kane have a 1-year-old daughter.
The Sharks start training camp at their practice facility in San Jose on Thursday.
On July 31, in Instagram Stories on her social media account, Anna Kane alleged that Evander gambled on NHL games and was “throwing games to win money” — which would be clear violations of league rules.
Just hours after the allegations were made, the NHL announced it was opening an investigation. The next day, Evander Kane — in a statement issued a statement via his Twitter account — denied gambling on NHL games or conspiring to fix games, which he reiterated in an interview with ESPN last week.
The NHL'S investigation was originally expected to be done by the start of the Sharks' training camp, however, it is unclear whether that will still be the case.