Word: kurri
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...scored at least one point in every game, 39 games and counting, nine beyond the old record. Now and then, hockey teams might expect to be shut out, but not the Edmonton Oilers, evidently. With 42 goals and 71 assists, Gretzky is ahead of his brightest pace, and Jari Kurri, his right winger, is second in the National Hockey League with 34 goals and 43 assists...
...newspaper USA Today last week, the player who scored the winning goal in Edmonton's 6-3 victory over Calgary was identified as "God." If this was the work of a mischiefmaker, it caused no confusion among the readers. Considering the company he keeps, no wonder then that Kurri is scarcely noticed. "Playing on the same line with Wayne Gretzky," Oilers Coach Glen Sather denies saying a few years ago, "a fire hydrant could score 40 goals." Whoever authored the phrase, Kurri has worn out several Finnish-English dictionaries trying to decipher it. Most often the third party...
Four years removed from Helsinki, Kurri does speak halting, charming English, learned painstakingly in front of a television set and at the foot of the Fonz. As he explains, "I watched Happy Days every time and Three's Company over and over. In any language, nobody cannot figure out Three's Company." This is the wisdom that passes understanding...