Byline: Steve Bisheff

This is Paul Kariya on his own special kind of breakaway.

This is hockey's ultimate good soldier deciding it was finally time to put himself before the team, before the money, before anything and everything, except what truly makes him happy.

Signing this deal with the Colorado Avalanche, accepting this jaw- dropping decrease in salary, tells you two quick things about him:

First, he wasn't thrilled to be playing in the new, defense-oriented style adopted by the Mighty Ducks, despite all his denials to the contrary.

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