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Taylor: "Joe Nieuwendyk has just taken this league by storm. He was a dominating player for Cornell University out of the Eastern College Atheletic Conference...
...this was a team that lost last year's ECAC Player of the Year Joe Nieuwendyk to the NHL's Calgary Flames. With Nieuwendyk last year, the Big Red did not make the ECAC playoffs. This year, while Nieuwendyk has become one of the NHL's biggest offensive threats, the Big Red has paid tribute to its lost star by challenging for the ECAC title...
...Nieuwendyk, a forward for Cornell's 1986 ECAC championship team, scored a pair of goals and added an assist for Calgary. He is the Flames' chief power play expert and has over 30 goals on the season, more than Wayne Gretzky...
When Cornell junior forward Joe Nieuwendyk--last year's ECAC Player of the Year--skipped his final year to play in the NHL, the Big Red had to find a legitimate scorer if it was to make a run at the league title...
...inclusion of non-amateurs hasn't turned the Olympics into a Wayne Gretzky festival yet, as the NHL teams are reluctant to let their stars take a year off to go frolic with the Russians. Thus some of the top young talents in North America, such as Joe Nieuwendyk and Tony Hrkac, both Canadians, missed out on the Olympics by joining pro squads last March...