1.   An attempt at a centering pass glanced off Bruins left wing P.J. Axelsson and then was knocked away by goalie Byron Dafoe.

2.   As teammate Benoit Hogue was tossing a centering pass to the front of the net, Harvey was spun around by Islanders defenseman Jason Strudwick.

3.   Bates saw Samsonov chugging through the left circle and hit him with a perfect centering pass.

4.   Abundis took a pass off a quick restart and tried to get a centering pass to Rafael Garcia.

5.   Buffalo floundered, though, as Dale Hawerchuk failed to shoot after a centering pass from Mogilny.

6.   But on Sunday, with less than two minutes to play in the period, defenseman Niklas Lidstrom took a centering pass from Slava Kozlov in the slot.

7.   But too often, centering passes found an empty crease, rebounds were flailed at with stone hands, opportunities came and went without a red light in sight.

8.   Claude Lapointe set up the score with a nifty centering pass.

9.   Denis Pederson, from behind the net, sent a centering pass to the slot to Steve Thomas, whose backhand shot was stopped by Dafoe.

10.   From a spot behind and to the right of the net, Larionov attempted to send a centering pass to Martin Lapointe.