11.   All three New York hockey teams have padded their roster before winning milestone Stanley Cups.

12.   Although many hockey teams stay in hotels before home games in the later rounds of the playoffs, few did it as often or as early as the Devils.

13.   Among the three hockey teams, he was the most stable and consistently successful coach since Al Arbour ran the Islanders.

14.   America was still aglow over its gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team of six months earlier.

15.   An afternoon when the inner substance of a hockey team came alive, prevailing over injury and logic and creeping death.

16.   An amateur American hockey team was eighth at Lillehammer.

17.   And at the worst time, a hockey team took the dreaded detour.

18.   An AHL team in San Antonio would mean two hockey teams in one market, a scenario that has failed many times, the Brahmas say.

19.   An embattled hockey team moves into a state-of-art arena and is reborn.

20.   And could the Meadowlands lure another hockey team to New Jersey after losing the Devils, a fate that would leave the arena to the ignominious Nets?