1.   Saturday night the Rangers faced a depleted Pittsburgh team that had not scored in a week.

2.   The Knicks looked great in the first round, sweeping Charlotte, while Miami barely survived a five-game struggle against a depleted Orlando team.

3.   When the Rangers visit Montreal on Saturday night for their second game, they will play a depleted team.

4.   White still has faith in his depleted team.

5.   Zambrano is not convinced the Galaxy is a depleted team since the Hernandez signing.

6.   At Kosevo Stadium in Sarajevo, a depleted Bosnian team had to battle for a tie against Estonia.

7.   He led a depleted Bulls team which had only eight players available in the second half.

8.   Sergei Gonchar had two goals and an assist in a battle of depleted teams heading fast toward mathematical elimination from the playoffs.

9.   That year the French beat a depleted Yugoslavia team in Pau after Goran Ivanisevic and Goran Prpic, both Croatians, refused to play for Yugoslavia.

10.   Very little went right for the depleted Czech Republic team, which was playing on unfamiliar grass courts and without several top players.