21.   It was garbage time in the most frustrating of seasons.

22.   John Salley getting the nod to play garbage time in front of his former home crowd?

23.   Must we watch the Dreamers play such extensive garbage time?

24.   Near midseason, Auriemma started playing them in the first half, and not just in garbage time.

25.   Now, as garbage time winds down with three games left before enforced vacation, the Bruins can at least try to profit from observation.

26.   Normally, this would have been garbage time.

27.   On Thursday night, Riley held firm to eight players until garbage time and Saturday he used nine, without getting much help.

28.   Perhaps the game even set a record for the earliest garbage time has ever begun.

29.   Robert Jenkins and Greg Skrepenak came in with less than overwhelming credentials, having played in a combined three games this season, and only in garbage time.

30.   Sergei Fedorov and Tomas Sandstrom also padded their numbers with final-period goals, when garbage time was well in effect.