Jeremy Roenick, Keith Tkachuk, Teppo Numminen, Oleg Tverdovsky, Nikolai Khabibulin, and Ilya Bryzgalov.

None of the above could lift the Coyotes to a playoff series victory. Shane Doan, long one of the leagues top forwards and leaders, young defenseman Keith Yandle, and Mike Smith, twice cast off goaltender first from the Dallas Stars and then the Tampa Bay Lightning, finally achieved what the others could not.