Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane is not expected to face criminal charges stemming from accusations of sexual assault in his hometown of Buffalo this summer.

The Buffalo News reports several sources indicate Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III will not move forward in filing formal charges against Kane. A local woman accused the Blackhawks star of overpowering her, when she and a friend accompanied him to his Hamburg estate following a night of drinking at a downtown sports bar on Aug. 2.

Reports are prosecutors now have doubts about the accuser's story and no longer plan to present it to a grand jury.

"This case is going nowhere," a source said.

"I was told ... the case will be administratively dismissed," another source added.

Sedita previously told reporters he was waiting to confer with the assigned prosecutor before making any further announcements concerning the status of the probe.

On Sunday, Kane reacted to the development, telling reporters his aim was always to let the facts speak for themselves and avoid getting caught up in any speculation.

"There's been a lot of reports, a lot of things that have been said that have been wrong," he said. "A lot of things that have been said that may have been accurate too. We've kind of stayed even keel the whole time."

Though he and his attorney Paul J. Cambria have refrained from discussing the case in much detail, Kane has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

Along with a male friend of the Blackhawks' star, Kane and the two women were driven to his home by an off-duty Buffalo police lieutenant serving as his chauffeur.

Doubts about the woman's story started to creep into play in late September, when reports surfaced that DNA evidence did not match Kane. Later, her attorney Thomas J. Eoannou held a press conference to announce that he was withdrawing from the case because the alleged victim's mother had given him false information involving "rape bag" evidence allegedly left at her home.

Branding the evidence bag development a hoax, Sedita at the time added he was unsure if the alleged rape victim was somehow involved in the ruse.

The district attorney made clear on Sept. 26 that he was starting to have doubts about the accusations and was reconsidering an earlier decision to present the matter to a grand jury.

"The question in mind is not when this will go to the grand jury. The question in my mind is if this goes to a grand jury," Sedita said that day.

Kane, who recently signed an eight-year, $84 million extension with the Hawks, was never criminally charged.