Yake received a slick pass from the point by Pierre Turgeon, then sneaked the puck past the Dunham on the right post.

One possession later, he found Camby cutting to the post and delivered a slick pass.

Salo made perhaps his biggest stops in the opening 20 minutes, the best coming against Darren McCarty, who received a slick pass from Vyacheslav Kozlov.

Nolan scored his fifth goal since returning from injury six games earlier on a slick pass from Mike Ricci.

Along with a few slick passes and some speedy skating, Nedved tried to check his man on defense.

And when he jammed home a two-handed slam off a slick no-look pass from Carter at 9:07, the Nets led by 76-66.

The Soviets, a poised, well-coached team, beat the press with slick passes, rather than careless dribbling.

Syracuse snatched the ball off the face-off, sending three slick passes downfield, where the sophomore attackman Liam Banks was waiting and slammed the ball in.

There's a universal formula for getting in the nation's face, from Blaine, Wash., to Portland, Maine: make the slick pass, keep breaking those ankles.

Except for a few slick passes, it wasn't pretty.