With an eye toward what they hope will be a second cold-weather playoff game next weekend, the Giants want to resurrect Dayne, who has slumped in the last month.
The camera finds Josh Hamilton in LA's dugout - he must be missing those familiar cheers after a season that's been nothing less than harrowing for the Angels, while his former club gears up for a challenging stretch run towards what would be a fourth consecutive playoff appearance.
Roy mentioned other individual matchups in what could be a first-rate Stanley Cup playoff series, including the top defensemen, Rob Blake of Colorado and Nicklas Lidstrom of Detroit, and the centers who are also captains, Joe Sakic of the Avalanche and Steve Yzerman of the Wings.
Last season, it was a first-round playoff matchup that was not much of a match at all.
The Yankees are a first-round playoff casualty for the third October in a row, and Torre will almost certainly lose his job as manager.
And what had been a first-time playoff matchup between teams located about 100 miles apart needed less than 34 minutes of game action to escalate into a fierce rivalry.
There is a third active playoff goalie on the list, Curtis Joseph of Calgary, whose.916 mark places him at No. 9 between the '70s legends Bernie Parent of Philadelphia and Ken Dryden of Montreal.
The Stanley Cup playoffs are a second season, utterly new.
For years, whenever a sports magazine runs a survey and asks what the most exciting spectator sport in the world is, a seventh game Stanley Cup playoff game finishes miles ahead of all others, including the Super Bowl.
Gary Roberts scored with 3 minute 16 seconds remaining, ending Lalime's bid for what would have been a record fifth playoff shutout.
