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March 25, 1999 | ELLIOTT TEAFORD
Add another chapter to the Ducks' book of moves that backfired. Believing they had added depth at center for the stretch drive and the playoffs, the Ducks were left empty-handed after a trade with the Vancouver Canucks was voided Wednesday. Peter Zezel, obtained for a late-round draft pick only hours before Tuesday's noon deadline, refused to report to the Ducks because he wished to be by the side of his terminally ill 3-year-old niece in Toronto.
SPORTS
January 18, 1996 | ROBYN NORWOOD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
As a youngster, Paul Kariya and his family used to gather around the television set to watch the NHL All-Star game. "That was a big deal," he said. By the age of 12 or 13, "I used to practice my signature," he said--hoping against hope that someday somebody would ask for it. On Saturday, Kariya will start in the All-Star game in Boston alongside his boyhood idol, Wayne Gretzky, and the crush to get the autograph Kariya practiced so carefully will be like never before.
SPORTS
October 8, 1998 | ELLIOTT TEAFORD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
One is "the Finnish Flash," the other is simply a blur. Step away from the ice, away from the crowds, the skates, sticks and pucks and you will find two very different people. The only thing Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya of the Mighty Ducks have in common is an uncommon grace in an often brutal game. "Teemu is so easygoing," said Colorado Avalanche winger Warren Rychel, a former Duck. "Paul is so focused, you can't talk to him sometimes. "But when they get on the ice, it's like magic."
NEWS
October 3, 1993 | ELLIOTT TEAFORD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
John Muckler remembers the woman and her broomstick most of all. Tim Moriarty can't forget the arena's awful aroma, the chicken wire and the fights. The Long Island Ducks are long gone, buried by 20 years of NHL success on the island and the rise of a new breed of Duck in Anaheim, but they live on in the memories of Muckler, Moriarty and others. Only a handful mourned the Long Island Ducks' passing after 14 wild and crazy years from 1959 to 1973 in the Eastern Hockey League.
SPORTS
October 21, 1998 | ELLIOTT TEAFORD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When we last saw Mighty Duck captain Paul Kariya in a regular-season game at the Arrowhead Pond, his arms were raised in celebration after scoring his second goal of the game Feb. 1 against the Chicago Blackhawks. A nanosecond later, he was on his backside, screaming at Blackhawk defenseman Gary Suter, "What the . . . was that?" Kariya missed last season's final 28 games because of post-concussion syndrome caused by Suter's cross-check to his jaw.
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May 27, 2003 | Helene Elliott, Times Staff Writer
From the NHL's debut in 1917, when Georges Vezina came out of the northern Quebec town of Chicoutimi and earned the nickname "the Chicoutimi Cucumber" for his coolness under siege, goaltenders from the Canadian province of Quebec have been well represented among the top players in the league. Jacques Plante of Shawinigan Falls, a town between Montreal and Quebec City, became synonymous with goaltending in the 1950s and became the first goalie to regularly wear a mask.
SPORTS
October 14, 1999 | BILL SHAIKIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Bobby Brett, brother of Hall of Famer George Brett, spoke this week with a representative of an investment group pursuing the Angels and Mighty Ducks. While the brothers would be interested in making a minority investment and operating the teams, Bobby Brett said Wednesday such discussion would be pointless until--and unless--Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli can find majority investors for a purchase that will likely exceed $400 million.
SPORTS
May 31, 2003 | Bill Plaschke
Joe Aranda walked into his downtown Los Angeles office one day this spring, proudly wearing a tie adorned with the logo of his beloved Mighty Ducks. "Oh, look," said a curious co-worker. "A hockey chicken!" Dr. Michael Papadopoulos leaned over a dental patient in his Torrance office recently and told the cute story of his young daughter's affection for the Ducks' talented rookie Stanislav Chistov. "Who?" asked the patient.
SPORTS
January 23, 1997 | CHRIS FOSTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
David McNab, Mighty Duck assistant general manager, makes his opinion on Frank Banham quite clear. "If anyone had told me two years ago that I would be in an organization that was interested in Frank Banham, I would have laughed at them," McNab said. Yet there was McNab Wednesday, not a grin in sight, talking about Banham as a Duck prospect. Banham spent the last week huffing and puffing around the ice with the Mighty Ducks.
NEWS
July 8, 1999 | DIANE PUCIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
It is a splendid summer day in Finland and Teemu Selanne, wearing olive green shorts and a polo shirt with a Mighty Ducks logo, is talking about his cars. And so, it seems, is everyone else. Selanne opens a Finnish tabloid-style newspaper and shows a picture of a Toyota Corolla with a smashed front end. It is Selanne's car, the one he crashed four days earlier while practicing his second favorite sport, rally car racing.