"It may be the middle of August, and he may be wearing a cast that runs from his left fingers up past his elbow, but there's always a competition going on between Chicago Blackhawks stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews.

Kane spent Thursday at a youth hockey camp run by Blackhawks assistant coach Mike Haviland at the Howell Ice World Family Ice Arena. He went on the ice with the youngsters, and also posed for pictures with the kids, who wore all manner of jerseys.

A number of them were sporting Blackhawks No. 88 jerseys, but there was one youngster decked out in a jersey that stuck out a bit -- a Blackhawks No. 10 with Toews' name on the back.

"I told him I'm not going to take a picture with him because he had a Toews jersey on him," Kane told NHL.com. "He looked at me like I was nuts."

The youngster in question, 9-year-old Patrick White of Summit, N.J., did get his picture taken with Kane, and later said Kane -- not Toews -- was his favorite player.

That brought a smile to Kane's face.

"I think there were a couple Kane jerseys," said Kane. "Nice to see a little more than Toews jerseys. … We usually joke about that stuff.""