The Thrashers signed first-round draft pick Evander Kane on Monday. The fourth overall selection in the 2009 draft agreed to the three-year NHL entry-level contract.
Though terms were not announced, the maximum entry-level salary is $900,000 per season, including signing bonuses, according to the league’s collective bargaining agreement. He will return to his junior league team if he does not make the Thrashers roster.
Thrashers general manager Don Waddell and head coach John Anderson said Kane would compete for a job on the team’s opening-day roster.
“He has a good chance to make our hockey club,” Anderson said last week.
Kane just completed the Thrashers’ six-day Prospect Development Camp. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound forward will return for the team’s prospect camp and training camp in September.
Kane, who turns 18 on Aug. 2, had 96 points (48 goals, 48 assists) in 61 games for Vancouver of the Western Hockey League last season. He led the WHL in power-play goals (23), was second in goals and game-winning goals (10) and fourth in points.
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