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...addition to marshalling alumni support,admissions officers routinely travel around theworld to meet with prospective students in Mexico,Central America, the Middle East, Europe and otherareas. This year, they will visit Turkey, Greece,Slovenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Austria,France, England and Wales...
Last year Hasek, 34, did real good, leading the tiny Czech Republic to a gold medal over the All-Star-studded American, Canadian and Russian teams. He has won the Hart Trophy--hockey's MVP award, which is usually reserved for scoring studs--two years running. He's a finalist again this year. Opposing teams scored an average of 1.87 goals per game against him in the regular season, vs. the league average of 2.63. He's known as the "Dominator," which he demonstrated in shutting down the younger, faster and just plain better Ottawa Senators to win the first...
Hasek is unusual in real life too. He has both the sketchy temperament and the Czech wackiness that has caused several teammates to refer to him as Kramer, but he can also be eerily emotionless. Fellow Czech and NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr wears sweater No. 68 in memory of the year the Russians occupied his country. Hasek says beating the Russians in the Olympic finals was no big deal. "The older people in Czech could feel this way, but I did not feel like I was playing against a country that occupied us for many, many years. These last eight...
Hasek is also stubborn. In 1989, playing for Czech's army team, he refused to skate during a key game against his hometown's team. In Buffalo he's already legend enough that the Marine Midland Arena, where the Sabres skate, is flanked by two gargoyle goalies splayed apart in a way that only the double-jointed Hasek can manage. Still, he was booed at the beginning of last year because he schemed to dump the team's popular coach. Last May he sat in his Jeep making calls as 1,500 fans--many of them children...
Although not well known in the U.S. outside of hockey, he's a hero at home in the Czech Republic, where he sells his own Dominator line of sports clothing. Hasek is mentioned for President. And this isn't a country with Bill Clinton at the helm; they have Vaclav Havel...