61.   Like everything with the trade deadline, there will more questions than answers leading to Tuesday.

62.   Look for the Oilers to try to send defenseman Bryan Marchment to the Penguins before the trade deadline.

63.   Many figured Ulf Samuelsson, dealt from New York to Detroit at the trade deadline in March, would end up back on Broadway.

64.   Milbury is also said to be looking hard at Oilers defenseman Tom Poti, whom the Oilers have been shopping hard and want to unload before the trade deadline.

65.   Mutombo shrugs because he does not even know if he will finish out the season, with the trade deadline in late February.

66.   Minutes after the midnight trade deadline Thursday night, Phillips joined a conference call with reporters, the tone of his tired voice conveying vast disappointment.

67.   New York time trade deadline.

68.   Sent to the Devils at the trade deadline from Dallas, for Corey Millen, he was what the Devils needed to bring the Cup across the Hudson River.

69.   That mental preparation has impressed John Vanbiesbrouck, the onetime Rangers goaltender, who joined the Devils from the Islanders at the trade deadline.

70.   That fell apart a day before the trade deadline.