51.   Both quarterbacks have certainly enhanced their employment prospects for next season, especially with two expansion teams due to start from scratch.

52.   Both seem more suited to back-up roles, but this is an expansion team, so you never know.

53.   Bowden made one trade with each expansion team a week before the draft, sending a player to each team for a player to be named.

54.   A bidding war immediately developed, and the two expansion teams won.

55.   A combination of an old team and a new one in Los Angeles would be unfair to the expansion team.

56.   A contending team, for example, should beat expansion teams, they believe.

57.   A great goalie can make an expansion team semi-respectable, or at least hold down the score to single digits.

58.   A growing number of the Panthers seem to believe they are a team of destiny, even as a third-year expansion team.

59.   A future expansion team also has been mentioned as a possibility.

60.   A loss would have given Vancouver the worst record for a first-year expansion team.