Steve Kariya

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Steve Kariya
Date of birth 22nd December 1977
place of birth North Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 170 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Left wing
number # 22
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1995-1999 University of Maine
1999-2003 Vancouver Canucks
2003-2004 New York Islanders
2004-2005 Ilves Tampere
2005-2006 Espoo Blues
2006-2008 Frölunda HC
2008-2009 HPK Hämeenlinna
2009-2010 JYP Jyväskylä

Steven Tetsuo Kariya (born December 22, 1977 in North Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player .

Career

Steve Kariya in the Manitoba Moose jersey (2002)

Steve Kariya played college hockey for the Maine Black Bears , the University of Maine sports team , with whom he won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in the 1998/99 season . After the season, the undrafted free agent closed his first professional contract with the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League . He is thus one of the few players who did not make the leap into the top division via the NHL Entry Draft , but were signed directly by a team.

His career with the Canucks was very bumpy, in almost four years he came to only 65 appearances in the NHL, the rest of the time he played mostly with the various farm teams of the franchise . Above all, his inconsistent defensive behavior was criticized. On January 24, 2003, the attacker was transferred to the New York Islanders in exchange for Mikko Jokela . There he did not play a single game, but ran for the Islanders' farm team, the Albany River Rats from the American Hockey League .

With the expiry of his contract and the looming lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Kariya decided to continue his career in Europe. In his first year with Ilves Tampere in the Finnish SM-liiga he showed very good performances and at the end of the season he received the Veli-Pekka-Ketola trophy , which is awarded to the top scorer of the league. After another year in Finland, with the Espoo Blues , the fast winger moved to the Swedish Elitserien for Frölunda HC . The Gothenburg club were reigning champions at the time and Kariya hoped to finally win his first professional title with them.

Success failed to materialize, however, and so he moved back to the Finnish league after only two seasons and signed a contract with HPK Hämeenlinna , for which he played for one season before moving to JYP Jyväskylä within the league . With his new club, Kariya took third place at the end of the 2010 SM liiga play-offs . Then he ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1996 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
  • 1997 Hockey East Sportsmanship Award
  • 1998 Hockey East Sportsmanship Award
  • 1999 Hockey East Sportsmanship Award

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1995-96 University of Maine HE 39 7th 15th 22nd 8th
1996-97 University of Maine HE 35 19th 31 50 10
1997-98 University of Maine HE 35 25th 25th 50 22nd
1998-99 University of Maine HE 41 27 38 65 24
1999-00 Vancouver Canucks NHL 45 8th 11 19th 22nd - - - - -
1999-00 Syracuse crunch AHL 29 18th 23 41 22nd 4th 2 1 3 0
2000-01 Vancouver Canucks NHL 17th 1 6th 7th 8th - - - - -
2000-01 Kansas City Blades IHL 43 15th 29 44 51 - - - - -
2001-02 Vancouver Canucks NHL 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2001-02 Manitoba mosses AHL 67 25th 37 62 48 7th 1 2 3 2
2002-03 Manitoba mosses AHL 38 14th 14th 28 18th - - - - -
Albany River Rats AHL 31 12 19th 31 20th - - - - -
2003-04 Albany River Rats AHL 57 17th 31 48 28 - - - - -
2004-05 Ilves Tampere SM-liiga 55 24 35 59 32 7th 3 2 5 4th
2005-06 Espoo Blues SM-liiga 56 22nd 27 49 61 9 3 3 6th 10
2006-07 Frölunda HC Elitserien 55 23 16 39 34 - - - - -
2007-08 Frölunda HC Elitserien 41 1 17th 18th 18th - - - - -
2008-09 HPK Hämeenlinna SM-liiga 58 21st 33 54 26th 6th 1 2 3 4th
2009-10 JYP Jyväskylä SM-liiga 46 16 12 28 20th 13 1 1 2 10
Hockey East overall 150 78 109 187 64
AHL total 222 86 124 210 136 11 3 3 6th 2
NHL overall 65 9 18th 27 32 - - - - -
Elitserien total 96 24 33 57 52 - - - - -
SM-liiga total 215 83 107 190 139 35 8th 8th 16 28

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Kariya comes from a sports-loving family. His two brothers Paul and Martin are also professional ice hockey players. Paul, the oldest of the three, was one of the National Hockey League's top wingers between the late 1990s and early 2000s . The youngest, Martin, was only used in the American Hockey League and in top European leagues. Her sister Noriko is a professional boxer .

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personal data
SURNAME Kariya, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kariya, Steven Tetsuo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH North Vancouver , British Columbia