So does this mean he's at the AHL for the rest of the season or can he be
brought back up again?  I have over $150 in tickets to the Chicago game and
would really like to see him in April (considering that is one of the main
reasons I bought them)!  Sorry I am just not overly familiar with the whole
AHL/minors thing!!
 
Tara
 
 
>From: "Marc D. Kagan" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Maine Hockey Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Steve - Vancouver Sun
>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 13:10:44 EST
>
>Last Updated: Sunday 30 January 2000
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>  Iain MacIntyre:
>Steve Kariya off to Syracuse for some Crunch time
>
>The Vancouver Sun
>
>Iain MacIntyre Vancouver Sun
>After an unexpected detour straight into the National Hockey League from
>college, North Vancouver dynamo Steve Kariya veered belatedly to the
>minors.
>
>Kariya, who at 5'6" was one of the NHL's biggest surprises last fall, was
>reassigned Friday by the Vancouver Canucks to make room on their 23-man
>roster for the return from injury of winger Alex Mogilny.
>
>Kariya's exit from the Canucks was far less surprising than his arrival,
>when
>he led the team in pre-season scoring and made the roster after signing
>last
>spring as a free agent from the University of Maine Black Bears.
>
>But Canuck coach Marc Crawford steadily reduced Kariya's role the last two
>months, scratching him from the lineup in four of the last five games.
>
>And since Kariya, as a rookie, does not need to clear waivers to report to
>the minors, he was the obvious choice to be sent to the Syracuse Crunch.
>
>Still, as recently as Friday morning's post-skate media scrum, Crawford
>said
>he hadn't decided who would be sent to Syracuse. When asked last week about
>the possibility of Kariya going to the minors to find playing time,
>Crawford
>said there was "not even a question of that."
>
>Even Kariya, however, had a feeling he'd be going to the minors.
>
>"I haven't been playing in games, and the ones I did I've played five or
>seven minutes," Kariya said Friday. "They think it's better for my
>development to go down; that's fine with me. To be honest, it doesn't
>matter
>what I think. It's their decision. I'll just go down there and try to work
>hard.
>
>"Pouting is something you do when you're six years old. We're all pretty
>much
>grown men here. This is our job. Whatever the coaching staff asks from us,
>it's what we're going to do. You've got to keep your head up, work hard and
>do what you can for the team."
>
>After leading the Canucks with 10 points in six pre-season games, Kariya
>collected six points in the first seven regular-season games but began to
>taper off in November.
>
>Although he leads the Canucks with a plus-nine rating and is 13th in the
>NHL
>in rookie scoring with 19 points from 43 games, he has been held off the
>scoresheet in 13 of 14 games since Dec. 8.
>
>"Most people thought that Steve wouldn't play a game in the NHL this year,"
>assistant general manager Dave Nonis said. "We thought he'd spend the whole
>year in Syracuse and we'd see how he does. By playing one game in the NHL,
>he
>exceeded expectations. We're extremely happy with him. I think he's going
>to
>have a long, prosperous career."
 
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