1.  Next Jets shot, tie game, courtesy of defenseman Deron Quint from the blue line.

2.  On the map it was pretty well blank space, save for the thin blue lines of creeks or Marsh drains crisscrossing it.

3.  Rookie Trent Whitfield almost caught Joseph napping, surprising him with a quick slap shot from the blue line.

4.  The plates have blue lines around the edges.

5.  The rioters did make the occasional foray, but north of the Santa Monica Freeway the thin blue line swiftly grew thicker.

6.  The blue line on the graph refers to sales.

7.  A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.

8.  A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair.

9.  Although he stole the puck from Leetch at the Ranger blue line, most of his rare collisions were with new Rangers who were not his teammates last season.