Word: kariya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, few candidates appear ready for the torch. Lindros? Too injury prone. Kariya? Lacks the charisma, and with one concussion already is a constant health concern...
Unfortunately, few candidates appear ready for the torch. Lindros? Too injury prone. Kariya? Lacks the charisma, and with one concussion already is a constant health concern...
...Kariya, 23, a fourth-generation Canadian of half-Japanese heritage, isn't part of the first 125 NHL players to participate in the Olympics. The man Hockey News named the best player in the world was stateside nursing a concussion received on Feb. 1, when he took a stick to the head while celebrating a goal. Kariya was grounded by doctors last Thursday. It was, he told Team Canada general manager Bob Clark, "the worst day of my life." The guy who held the offending stick, Gary Suter, despite an NHL suspension, will be playing for the U.S. That makes...
...Canada is likely to win its first gold since 1952 even without Kariya. And the NHL might not have got all the hype it hoped from him anyway. Sure, his skating would have been incredible to watch on the Olympic-size rinks, but his comments about not feeling very Japanese might not have played well, and his lack of stage presence might have worked against the flashy image the NHL wants to present. That's partly because he looks less like an athlete than that guy from your computer-science class. He's so small he was told he could...
...time to grow into all the off-ice attention. Sitting at a Benihana's last month, eating a meal called the Rocky's Junior, Kariya touched his cheek and discussed his shaving habits: "A lot more often this year," he says, "every two or three days now." Maybe 2002, in Salt Lake City, will work better for Kariya after all. Gretzky can handle the Japanese...