Don Cherry
09-20-2003, 01:43 PM
SABRES NOTEBOOK
By TIM GRAHAM
News Sports Reporter
9/20/2003
ROCHESTER - Curtis Brown noticed a reporter had been hanging around the Buffalo Sabres' training camp dressing room Friday for quite a while. The veteran center asked whom the reporter was waiting to interview.
Artem Kriukov was the answer.
A perplexed look came over Brown's face as if he had been asked the indentity of Deep Throat.
Artem Kriukov? Who's that?
The Sabres' first-round draft choice in 2000, that's who.
The mysterious Russian center was selected 15th overall, ahead of NHL players such as Amherst native Brooks Orpik, Marcel Hossa and Justin Williams.
But Kriukov, 21, hadn't appeared at Sabres training camp until this year, mostly because of head and shoulder injuries.
"For my first time I feel all right," Kriukov said with the help of translator and Sabres defenseman Alexei Zhitnik.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030920/1004165.asp
By TIM GRAHAM
News Sports Reporter
9/20/2003
ROCHESTER - Curtis Brown noticed a reporter had been hanging around the Buffalo Sabres' training camp dressing room Friday for quite a while. The veteran center asked whom the reporter was waiting to interview.
Artem Kriukov was the answer.
A perplexed look came over Brown's face as if he had been asked the indentity of Deep Throat.
Artem Kriukov? Who's that?
The Sabres' first-round draft choice in 2000, that's who.
The mysterious Russian center was selected 15th overall, ahead of NHL players such as Amherst native Brooks Orpik, Marcel Hossa and Justin Williams.
But Kriukov, 21, hadn't appeared at Sabres training camp until this year, mostly because of head and shoulder injuries.
"For my first time I feel all right," Kriukov said with the help of translator and Sabres defenseman Alexei Zhitnik.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030920/1004165.asp