Sports: July 2003 Archives
The Colorado Avalanche has signed unrestricted free agents Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne to one-year contracts, the Associated Press learned Thursday.
This is an unbelievable deal. Kariya agreed to a 1.2 million dollar contract. We get one of the greatest hockey duos ever for 7 million dollars. All Praise Pierre.
In the words of Adrian Dater of the Denver Post:
The Avalanche's power play figures to be fearsome, perhaps one of the greatest combinations of talent in NHL history. Rob Blake and Derek Morris should man the points (although Kariya has done the same in the past with Anaheim) and Colorado will have a choice of Forsberg, Selanne, Kariya, Sakic and Hejduk down low for their rotation of three forwards.Unbelievable, indeed.
