101.   Defenseman Ulf Samuelsson threaded a pass to him as he passed the blue line and flew past the defenders David Shaw and Roman Hamrlik.

102.   Defenseman Vitaly Vishnevski kept a loose puck along the boards inside the blue line thanks to his ability to chase down the puck.

103.   Cullen was knocked down at the San Jose blue line but swept the puck to Ted Donato, who got it to Kip Miller.

104.   Desjardins got the puck near the blue line after Peter Nedved lost the faceoff to Craig MacTavish and Stephane Matteau failed to cover Desjardins.

105.   Dineen took it at the New York blue line and blasted a slap shot from the top of the right-wing circle.

106.   Defenseman Kyle McLaren dished the puck up through neutral ice to Carter, who gained the blue line and fed the puck into the right circle for Thornton.

107.   Defenseman Ray Bourque carried the puck across the blue line.

108.   Earlier, Kovalev had angered his coach by carrying the puck over the Boston blue line but losing control of it.

109.   Early in the second period, he took an inspired cross-ice pass from Sergei Zubov and broke across the Buffalo blue line along the right boards.

110.   Duck defenseman Milos Holan is recovering slowly from his bone marrow transplant and is not a candidate to return to the Anaheim blue line this season.