1.   An immediate hint of trouble was an exhibition loss to the L.A. Salsa in a warmup match days before opening ceremonies.

2.   After an overtime exhibition loss to Marathon on Monday, Frieder said there were some positives.

3.   After two exhibition losses, he named Brown his quarterback.

4.   In the three exhibition losses thus far, the highlights have been, well, brief.

5.   It was just the second success at the Pond in seven tries, including an October exhibition loss to the Lakers.

6.   The exhibition losses were forgotten in a heartbeat.

7.   The Rangers are reeling after a pair of lopsided exhibition losses, in Anaheim on Wednesday and San Jose on Thursday.

8.   The results are decidedly better than the Lakers showed in that awkward-looking stay in Hawaii, and particularly in those two lopsided exhibition losses to Golden State.

9.   They were slaughtered in their six exhibition losses and, in one of their two wins, beat expansion Vancouver at the buzzer.

10.   Those exhibition losses mean little to the colleges.