11.   That sent hundreds of celebratory and now-customary plastic rats onto the ice.

12.   The security guards are looking for plastic rats.

13.   The theory here, apparently, is that visiting saboteurs would be limited in number and in their supply of plastic rats.

14.   There are plastic rats and rubber rats, long-nosed, snub-nosed and beady-eyed rats.

15.   Want a paperweight consisting of a plastic rat encased in an amber block?

16.   When the Panthers scored, tying the game in the first period, fans leaped from their seats and hurled plastic rats onto the ice.

17.   When Tom Fitzgerald scored a goal for the Panthers in their home opener, no plastic rats hit the ice.

18.   First, they threw plastic rats on the ice, their ritual whenever the Panthers scored.

19.   Florida fans began bringing plastic rats to the Miami Arena and throwing them on the ice whenever the Panthers scored.

20.   Florida fans, as usual, threw plastic rats on the ice.