21.   Dejected Vancouver Canucks can be seen hanging their heads and banging their sticks in frustration at a one-goal defeat in the seventh game of the championship round.

22.   Every day is like the seventh game of the World Series.

23.   Every game is like the seventh game of the World Series.

24.   For all the Yanks and Diamondbacks Sunday night, the finality of the seventh game would make it as important as anything that had ever gone on before.

25.   Fox would have the seventh game of the World Series on that date, if the series goes that long.

26.   For that matter, the seventh game of the World Series can have errors.

27.   Gonzalez missed his seventh consecutive game yesterday because of a strained right hamstring.

28.   He began it as the starter, then lost the job to sophomore Matt Hasselbeck in the seventh game against Army.

29.   He did it in San Jose, too, when they beat Detroit in the seventh game.

30.   He double-faulted three times in the seventh game of the third set but held serve anyway.