21.   Blues defenseman Al MacInnis released a shot at center ice that found a way past Osgood in that playoff series.

22.   Boston opens a best-of-five playoff series in Cleveland on Wednesday.

23.   Both do not miss starts and both could be torturous on teams in a brief playoff series.

24.   A Boise, Idaho, television station broadcast the first game of the Colorado Rockies-Atlanta Braves playoff series, then hastily switched to the Mariners-Yankees.

25.   A feeling-out process is not only necessary, it is an indispensable ingredient to any playoff series between two teams with pulses.

26.   A Coyotes-Stars playoff series is certainly a possibility.

27.   A cigar was lit, a beer was half full and a playoff series was two-thirds of the way down his pocket.

28.   A playoff series against the Indiana Pacers has never been any other way.

29.   A shock-the-world upset for the Rangers in this playoff series is dependent upon stellar rotation work.

30.   A single playoff series does not a career make.