Mike Hough set him up with a drop pass in the slot.

Kevin Dineen got the first goal, on the power play, at 7:50, converting Mark Howe's drop pass.

Ward, trailing the play, took Nieminen's drop pass in the high slot and beat Hasek between his pads.

Jagr made it 3-0 at 12:54 by taking a drop pass and beating Healy with a long wrist shot.

Thomas gave Chicago a 2-1 lead when he scored off a drop pass from Troy Murray for his first goal of the playoffs.

Messier made it 3-0 at 9:13 of the second period after Graves set him up with a drop pass.

Lapointe took a behind-the-back drop pass from Mike Hough at the blue line, setting up the score.

Damphousse took a drop pass and fired a slap shot that rang off the post.

The drop pass is similar to the lob pass.

Kovalev carried over the Boston blue line and left a neat little drop pass for Ferraro.