{"id":7596,"date":"2017-07-03T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:13:24","slug":"paul-kariya-inducted-into-the-hockey-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/paul-kariya-inducted-into-the-hockey-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kariya Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7598\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/najc.ca-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/paul-kariya.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7598\" src=\"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/paul-kariya.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Kariya\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: espn.go.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Paul Kariya to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame<\/h3>\n<p>The National Association of Japanese Canadians and its 17-member organization sends its congratulations to Vancouver born Paul Kariya for being selected to The Hockey Hall of Fame. We are equally proud that Paul is the first inductee of Asian heritage and the first Japanese Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s hockey style was reminiscent of the Asahi Baseball team of the 1930s who played a courteous but a tactical style of game dubbed \u201cbrain baseball\u201d.\u00a0 Sport writers have described Paul as a skilled, fast skating player who brought a cerebral element to the game.\u00a0 He had an innate hockey sense that seemed to attract pucks.\u00a0 As a recipient of the Lady Byng Trophy in 1996 and 1997 &#8211; given to the most gentlemanly player &#8211; it reflects his personal standards in a physically demanding sport.<\/p>\n<p>It is timely that Paul will be inducted this year as the Japanese Canadian community commemorates: the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Japanese Canadian soldiers who fought at Vimy Ridge, the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the incarceration of 22,000 Japanese Canadians and the 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the founding of the NAJC.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s father was born in an incarceration camp and his uncle has been a supporter of the NAJC.<\/p>\n<p>We are hopeful that the next inductee to the Hall will be Vicky Sunahara who has been eligible since 2010.\u00a0 Vicky is a trailblazer in Canadian women\u2019s hockey who has won 9 gold medals and 2 silvers and has devoted her life to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kariya to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame The National Association of Japanese Canadians and its 17-member organization sends its congratulations to Vancouver born Paul Kariya for being selected to The Hockey Hall of Fame. We are equally proud that Paul is the first inductee of Asian heritage and the first Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}