1.   And Elias helped get the Devils to this stage as he produced both goals in the deciding game against the Flyers in the Eastern Conference finals.

2.   And now, for the fourth time in four years, the Knicks are headed to Miami for another deciding game against the Heat.

3.   And they are only the second to pull it off by winning the deciding game on the road.

4.   Any chance Cleveland had of overtaking the Yankees and forcing a deciding seventh game ended on a costly error by the least likely of players.

5.   Back-to-back wins this weekend, and Pedro the Younger is harboring hope that he would be available to pitch the deciding game in Cleveland Monday.

6.   Both deciding games were in Dallas because the Stars had a better regular-season record.

7.   -- Miami coach Larry Coker, when asked if he would like to play Oregon in a deciding game.

8.   Ainge almost meant victory in the deciding game of this series.

9.   But because of the Major League Soccer rule of deciding tied games, this will not be a matchup of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference.

10.   Critics will make much of the fact that the Raptors lost the deciding game of the playoff series by a single point when Carter missed the final shot.