31.   Green, left all alone to the right of Dafoe, pounced on the rebound and slipped it into a virtually empty net.

32.   Gretzky, who finished the evening with a goal into the empty net, also had two assists.

33.   He fired a puck into an empty net after Richter was down on the ice for the third shot of a flurry.

34.   He gazed down the flower-flecked slope, empty net in hand.

35.   He then dished it to Jozef Stumpel on the left wing, and Stumpel buried it into the empty net to finish the three-on-one.

36.   Hull had one of the easiest goals of his career, throwing it into an empty net from point-blank range.

37.   However, his shot at an empty net caromed off the post.

38.   In that one, the Devils scored on the power play early and into the empty net in the final minute.

39.   It left the D.C. striker with an empty net.

40.   Jason Arnott had hoped that his first real contact with his new teammates would involve more than shooting pucks into an empty net.