PENTICTON – Evander Kane still remembers watching the Vancouver Canucks as a kid.

He has fond memories of seeing Markus Naslund, Mattias Ohlund and Dan Cloutier streak across the ice in Vancouver’s famed jersey.

Now the bruising winger is set to skate on the same ice, playing for his hometown team.

“It’s definitely cool to be able to put on the Canucks jersey as an NHL player,” Kane said at Canucks training camp in Penticton, B.C.

“The excitement has kind of been a slow build since I’ve gotten traded. And I think it’ll start bubbling once the first regular-season game is played.”

The Edmonton Oilers dealt Kane to Vancouver on June 25 in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick.

The move cleared up cap space for an Oilers team that’s looking to extend superstar captain Connor McDavid, a

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