41.   The Red Wings decided to sneak behind the Iron Curtain and see if they could steal away some of the best amateur hockey talent in the world.

42.   The Rangers won the Petr Nedved sweepstakes, leaving disgruntled Canuck Pavel Bure and unsigned Islander Zigmund Palffy as the two best hockey players not playing in the NHL.

43.   They have been playing their best hockey in years.

44.   They were the best hockey players that American dollars can buy.

45.   Thursday night, some of the best hockey players from all over the world will be there.

46.   We will have to play our best hockey in order to win it all, but I think our best is yet to come.

47.   When the Los Angeles Kings were losing, it seemed every opponent was playingsome of its best hockey of the season.

48.   Wiped out from a bout with the flu last weekend, Jenny Schmidgall might have been forgiven for not playing her best hockey the past few days.

49.   Wilson showed tremendous flair in the first three-plus games of the Carolina series, playing the best hockey of his young career.

50.   Only the day before, the same newspaper had asked readers to vote if this was the best Swedish hockey team ever.