31.   They understood the gravity of a moment for two players who have been standing across the net from each other since their Crayola days as junior players.

32.   Thornton lived with a Brookline family last season, in keeping with how junior players in Canada live with their billet families.

33.   Top-ranked junior player by both Golf Digest and Golf Week.

34.   When they were junior players, they frequented the Fiesta Bowl Tournament.

35.   When Walz came to the Bruins, he was a highly touted youngster with a high-scoring resume as a junior player in Lethbridge.

36.   When they were young junior players, their parents discouraged them from facing each other in tournaments, and the twins would take turns defaulting when they reached finals.

37.   A lot of junior players have problems the first couple of years.

38.   Association spokesman Kristianus Liem said no target had been set for the junior players in the world junior championships.

39.   Atlanta won the NHL entry draft drawing on Tuesday and will pick first in the draft of junior players.

40.   Finnish coach Curt Lindstrom said he had decided against bringing any NHL players to Moscow so he could evaluate his junior players better.