31.   The Florida Panthers hired former defenseman Joe Cirella as an assistant coach.

32.   The former defenseman remembers it like it was yesterday.

33.   Two years ago, he traveled with the Rangers when the former defenseman Kevin Stevens wound up in a drug tenement outside St. Louis.

34.   Usually, the chant involves Denis Potvin, a former New York Islander defenseman.

35.   When Stumpel victimized Thibault, McDonough, a veteran college referee and a former defenseman at South Boston High and Boston State College, saw it all the way.

36.   When Todd Gill joined the Red Wings last week, he became the fifth former Maple Leafs defenseman to play for the Red Wings in the past two seasons.

37.   With the Bruins killing a penalty to defenseman Don Sweeney, Dafoe came up big on a shot by former Bruins defenseman Glen Wesley.

38.   Yet even former Ducks defenseman Jamie Pushor, now a member of the Stars, took a shot at his ex-teammates.

39.   Police stopped a British ice hockey game and arrested six players following a pre-game brawl in which a former NHL defenseman was injured.

40.   Also elected were former defenseman Jerry Korab and scout Michel Racicot, the only member of the Sabres hockey staff still with the team since it was established.