21.   Not a single rat hit the ice when Tom Fitzgerald got the first goal.

22.   She hit the ice, hard, in Nashville at the U.S. nationals, and for the first time heard a crowd clapping to encourage her.

23.   Should he go toward the end, and the kids with the quads hit the ice one after another, Eldredge may have an ace in the hole.

24.   Sunday the Flyers hit the ice at their practice rink, trying to figure out how to solve the Devils.

25.   That concussion, when his head hit the ice after his helmet had been jarred off, had been his fifth.

26.   The first octopus hit the ice during the National Anthem.

27.   The players taking part in the second session of prospect and development camp hit the ice today.

28.   Then I hit the ice just east of Crockett.

29.   They came to win and set about taking care of business as soon as the puck hit the ice.

30.   They hit the ice in October with the same conservative methods seen in the playoffs.