Paul Kariya

Paul Kariya was a left winger who played 989 NHL games for Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville and St. Louis, and scored exactly 989 points. Kariya last skated in the 2010-11 season and announced retirement in June 2011. Kariya is remembered as the first great Mighty Duck, as Teemu Selanne's linemate, and for Game 6 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Final, when Kariya was flattened by Scott Stevens, came back to the bench and scored.

Position	Left wing
Born	16 October 1974, North Vancouver, British Columbia
Drafted	4th overall, 1993, by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
NHL teams	Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville, St. Louis
NHL career	989 GP, 402 G, 587 A, 989 P
Honours	Hockey Hall of Fame 2017; Hobey Baker Award 1993; Lady Byng Trophy 1996 and 1997; NHL First All-Star Team 1996, 1997 and 1999; Olympic gold 2002 and silver 1994; No. 9 retired by Anaheim in 2018
Known for	Speed, vision and the Anaheim line with Teemu Selanne; the Game 6 goal in the 2003 Final
Since retiring	No role in the sport; public appearances limited largely to the 2017 Hall of Fame induction and the 2018 jersey retirement

Teemu Selänne’s hilarious prank on Paul Kariya

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What Scott Stevens said after Paul Kariya hit creeps us out

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Teemu Selanne thought Paul Kariya was a fan when they first met

When the Anaheim Ducks made their first-ever draft pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, they selected Paul Kariya at No. 4. He was a Hobey Baker winner at Maine, so he entered the NHL ...

Paul Kariya says he and Teemu Selanne argued only one time

When Paul Kariya, one of the greatest players of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim franchise history, got elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, it was only fair that his close friend and former linemate ...

When Scott Stevens crushed Paul Kariya

It is one of the NHL’s and Stanley Cup Finals’ most talked-about events throughout history: a vicious hit, a knocked-out superstar, and an unbelievable comeback. Back then it was described as an effort of heroism. ...