Also from Staffan, here are some of his eyewitness comments on the Canada-Sweden win in which Kariya had a goal and an assist. Taken from rec.sport.hockey. This was really all that related to college hockey but you can reference the original article for the entire game story. - mike 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships, December 27: ==================================================== CANADA - SWEDEN 5-4 (1-0,1-3,2-2) Canada won a close game where American referee Brett A Parson called a total of 116 penalty minutes. Many strange calls interrupted this game, and the inconsistency of Parson was confusing all players. ... It was Canada's best line (Kariya-Lapointe-Bes) that scored the equalizer. Lapointe managed to poke the puck passed Swedish goalie Ronnqvist. 2nd - CAN 1-1 Martin Lapointe 1 (Brent Tully,Paul Kariya) 5:04 ... The game's second best player, IMO, increased the Canadian lead in the beginning of the third period. Paul Kariya beat the Swedish defenseman at the boards, going on a 2 against goalie break-away. Kariya passed the puck to Lapointe, who passed back to Kariya. Beautiful goal. 3rd - CAN 4-2 Paul Kariya 1 (Martin Lapointe,Mike Rathje) 3:42 ... The Swedes pulled their goalie at the end but the game ended 5-4. The game's (and Sweden's) best player was no doubt Peter Forsberg. His line with wingers Markus Naslund and Niklas Sundstrom scored all of Sweden's four goals. Due to the large number of penalties, this line got to play a lot, since those are the best players in power play and box play situations. Canada's best was IMO Paul Kariya. It's good to see the success of a small, fast, skilled player like that because 200 lbs almost seem to be a prerequisite in today's hockey. ... Three stars (personal opinion): 1 - Peter Forsberg 2 - Paul Kariya 3 - Manny Legace ... --- ... [line combinations - mike] LW 18. Paul Kariya C 11. Jeff Bes RW 22. Martin Lapointe -- ((\\ //| Staffan Axelsson \\ //|| [log in to unmask] \\_))//-|| contact for Swedish hockey --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors (Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.) *HMN*