81.  Coffey shot from the blue line, and the puck may have hit another player on its way.

82.  Chorske picked up a loose puck at his blue line, broke in alone on Fichaud and found a hole between his pads.

83.  Chris Gratton hit a hard shot from the blue line that handcuffed Brodeur, but he recovered quickly to knock aside the rebound.

84.  Comes now the blue line.

85.  Congestion at the blue line.

86.  Coach Rick Kehoe twice opted to make Laukkanen a healthy scratch rather than disrupt harmony behind the blue line.

87.  Darren Langdon led him from neutral ice with a perfect pass that Nemchinov skated onto at the blue line.

88.  Deadmarsh nearly gave the Kings the lead when he deflected a shot from the blue line eight minutes into the period.

89.  Defenseman Don Sweeney knocked the stuffing out of Carolina rearguard Glen Wesley, a former Bruin, at the Boston blue line during a Hurricanes power play.

90.  Defenseman Janne Niinimaa took a wrist shot from just inside the blue line.