Evander Kane calls radio host 'liar and a hater' for claims about Edmonton Oilers player
Winnipeg radio host Jim Toth appears to have found himself a sudden enemy in Edmonton Oilers forward Evander Kane.
Toth, speaking on Jets at Noon on 680 CJOB, was chatting with co-host Cameron Poitras about Kane skipping out on the post-Stanley Cup handshake line after being ejected from Tuesday’s Game 6.
Toth recalled a story from Kane’s days in the WHL with the Vancouver Giants and shared a story of a rookie Kane supposedly cutting in line behind his older teammates at the post-game food line while visiting the Kootenay Ice.
“It wasn’t like you went in the order [of what line you were on the team], but it was just knowing that rookies let veterans go first, and he just walked right up front, and I thought of that when he didn’t come out to shake hands. So in junior hockey, you get called up, and three days into it, you just, ‘I’m blowing by the 20-year-olds who’ve been here for four years and just gonna start eating.'”
Kane caught wind of the claims on X and wasn’t exactly pulling punches at Toth, fighting back against their validity, particularly because he never played in Kootenay as a rookie.
My goodness š talk about fabricating
Here are 5 facts.
1. Never played in Kootenay(cranbrook) as a 15 year old or 16 year old as a rookie like you claimed I did.
2. Played 1 single game in Kootenay and it was in my last year of Junior.
3. I Won a memorial cup when I wasā¦ https://t.co/xsGuANsjnA
— Evander Kane (@evanderkane) June 20, 2025
“Jimās a liar and a hater but lucky for him heās not alone,” Kane wrote. “[I] never played in Kootenay (Cranbrook) as a 15- or-16-year-old or as a rookie like you claimed I did.”
Kane’s lone game in junior in Cranbrook came on January 9, 2009, scoring two goals and an assist in a 4-1 Giants win, the year before he headed to the NHL. In his rookie season, he spent eight regular-season and five playoff games with the Giants, playing a total of five road games.
Toth also said that Kane had won a WHL championship, which Kane also refuted in the tweet.
Kane did win the Memorial Cup as a 15-year-old with the Giants, but did so by way of Vancouver making the tournament as the predetermined host team, as they fell to Medicine Hat in Game 7 of the WHL Final that year.
It’s unclear whether Toth was misremembering a different game, a different player, or whether the story was entirely fabricated. Toth has yet to publicly respond to Kane about the incident.