1.   An hour earlier, Commissioner Gary Bettman had handed the Stanley Cup to the Devils, winners over the Dallas Stars in two overtime periods.

2.   An overtime period later, the prophetic clip hardly proved amusing.

3.   And in the overtime period, Bibby blew past Michael Finley on the baseline and laid the ball in over Dirk Nowitzki for the game-winner.

4.   And they would continue to find their way around and above the hometown defense in the fourth quarter and overtime period.

5.   A bigger question is whether the new four-on-four overtime period really has had any impact.

6.   A five-minute overtime period, using the new four-on-four format as an experiment, was played before regulation.

7.   After a sloppy, uneven game, the overtime period was so chaotic that three missed field goal attempts were highlights.

8.   After the two-minute warning, and throughout any overtime period, a replay assistant upstairs initiates a referee review.

9.   But a poor decision can lose a game, as the Rangers discovered again on Monday night at the start of the overtime period.

10.   But in the overtime period, the Maroon Tigers threw the ball away twice, which eventually prove to be their undoing.