21.   Anyone who follows the game knows that the days of the hard-drinking, hard-skating, hell-raising hockey player are past.

22.   As exciting a hockey player as you can get?

23.   As Booth pointed out, hockey players are a different breed, accepting the most difficult aspects of their rugged sport without complaint.

24.   As is their nature, the hockey players were approachable and friendly, signing autographs and posing for pictures.

25.   At least not for any of the U.S. Olympic Trash Team, alias the male hockey players.

26.   Ask anyone about Mara the hockey player and the same lofty descriptions come up over and over again.

27.   At the same time, pound-for-pound you must be physically stronger than any football player, hockey player or weight lifter.

28.   Back then, the hockey players at the Winter Games were young hopefuls.

29.   ATLANTA - If a blue-collar town like Pittsburgh can bow to a French Canadian hockey player, anything is possible.

30.   Based on how they perform in playoff games, hockey players will earn NHL.com points.