21.   In three weeks, the very best professional hockey players in the world will be in Nagano, shooting for gold.

22.   It can be argued that Forsberg is the best hockey player in the world.

23.   It could be the best hockey tournament ever.

24.   It set the stage for the best hockey of the series, maybe of the playoffs.

25.   It was a grand notion, this idea of giving the league a paid holiday while dispatching the best hockey players in the world to the mountains of Japan.

26.   March and April are the best time to play your best hockey, not October and November.

27.   More than most players, he plays his best hockey under pressure and in the playoffs.

28.   Next thing they are traveling around the world playing against some of the best hockey players in the world.

29.   Now their best hockey is coming at Staples.

30.   Players say they are just starting to play their best hockey.