61.   Kariya, a key component for the Canadian team, missed most of his NHL season with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim because of a prolonged contract dispute.

62.   Kariya will train with the Canadian national team for the next two months.

63.   Lemieux is coming back to the Penguins and will be captain of the Canadian national team at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City next February.

64.   Maverick point guard Steve Nash played in the summer league on the Canadian national team.

65.   Michael Peca of the Islanders, a center for the Canadian team, expressed some concern about the advantages the Europeans might have.

66.   Neither Canadian team is eligible this year, either.

67.   Now comes word from Edmonton that the second-ranked Canadian team is working with a renowned physiologist at the University of Alberta.

68.   Obviously, the Canadian team served as a teacher for us.

69.   On the Canadian team, along with Messier and Gretzky, is their Ranger teammate Adam Graves.

70.   On Wednesday afternoon the Canadian team announced it plans to file an official appeal with the ISU.