Season series: The Nashville Predators won all three games against the Arizona Coyotes last season, including two overtime victories. Predators forward James Neal had three goals and an assist, including two game-winners and a game-tying goal to force overtime. Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne played all three games and allowed five goals on 96 shots.
Coyotes team scope: Forward Shane Doan has joined Arizona on its five-game road trip; Doan has missed three straight games because of a lower-body injury. "[Doan] went through a whole practice [Monday], so we'll re-evaluate him in the morning," coach Dave Tippett told the Coyotes website. Forward Steve Downie practiced Monday and will travel with the team; Downie has missed nine games because of an upper-body injury. "[Downie] is a possibility as well," Tippett said. The Coyotes head into this road trip after winning three straight at home. Goaltender Mike Smith is expected to start. Smith is 6-2-0 in his past eight games with a 2.40 goals-against average; he had a 4.55 GAA in seven games before that.
Predators team scope: Goaltender Carter Hutton practiced Monday after missing Nashville's 4-1 loss against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday because of a lower-body injury. Forward Miikka Salomaki (upper body), who was placed on injured reserved last week, practiced Monday. The Predators have lost five of their past six games, having been outscored 20-7 in that span. "It's easy to make excuses and say we've been on the road or whatever like that, but you look at the standings and we keep sinking," Rinne told the Predators website Monday. "We have to make it stop and just find a way to win games right now." Rinne, who has a 3.26 GAA in his past four games, will likely start Tuesday.
When Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke effectively ended the career of Boston Bruins centre Marc Savard with a crushing blindside hit to the head, the blow sent shudders through the hockey world.
It also sent Colin Campbell, then the NHL's senior vice-president of operations, to his computer, where he exchanged emails about the incident with Mike Milbury, a former NHL player, coach and general manager turned TV analyst.
Milbury asked Campbell, "Is intent to injure a stand alone call?"
As part of his reply, sent six days after the incident in a March 13, 2010, email, Campbell wrote: "Let's face it Mike... we sell rivalries, we sell and promote hate..."
Campbell's charged answer is part of the public record in U.S. federal court in Minnesota as the result of a legal action launched by a group of more than 100 former NHL players, including Joe Murphy, Bernie Nicholls and Gary Leeman.
They are suing the NHL, alleging league and team officials knew or ought to have known about the links between head trauma and long-term cognitive problems but failed to act to protect players – all the while profiting from the violence of hockey.
The league says players could have put "two and two together" and done their own research about the long-term effects of repeated concussions.
The Milbury-Campbell exchange and thousands of others are now at the centre of a high-stakes battle over whether the media and the public have a right to know what NHL executives said and did behind the scenes about violence in the game and player head injuries.
So far, the NHL has turned over more than 2.5 million pages of internal league documents in the case. The vast majority of those documents, however, are sealed by a court order at the NHL's request.
But on Tuesday in Minnesota, a judge is scheduled to hear from lawyers for the former players and CTV's W5 that the public has a right to review an initial batch of 61 documents, most of which have been completely hidden from public view.
It's unclear when the U.S. federal court judge will rule on the former players' and CTV's court motion.
Some of the documents include emails that have been partially redacted by the NHL, such as the one Campbell sent to Milbury in which he wrote that the league "sell(s) and promote(s) hate." The emails referenced here are from documents that are now part of the public record.
The NHL says in court filings that it wants to keep the documents secret to protect its trade secrets and to protect some of its officials from embarrassment.
The league says lawyers for the former players are simply trying to stoke a "media firestorm" and "spin documents" to influence the "court of public opinion" and recruit additional retired NHL players to file lawsuits.
Neither NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly nor league executive vice-president of communications Gary Meagher responded to an email seeking comment on the potential unsealing of documents in the case.
The emails that are partially redacted include correspondence between league officials and doctors, team executives, trainers and members of the media. Some of the emails will be used by lawyers for the former players suing the NHL to show the mindset of league executives, particularly those in charge of establishing on-ice rules and overseeing player discipline.
In October of 2006, after Jonathan Cheechoo, then with the San Jose Sharks, collided with Vancouver's Lukas Krajicek in a game, NHL executive Mike Murphy, a former player and coach, emailed Campbell after an NHL team official, whose name has been redacted, complained about the hit.
"I think about when we played...head shots? That was life in the League," Murphy wrote. "You stood up for yourselve [sic] and your coach and GM told you to have some balls or go home!...I must be getting too old..."
In March, 2007, after former NHL player Todd Fedoruk said in an interview with The Canadian Press that tough guys should wear padding on their hands under their hockey gloves, NHL public relations staffer Frank Brown emailed the story to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, Daly and Campbell.
Campbell's emailed reply has been completely redacted, hidden from public view.
A month later, in April, 2007, Brian Burke, then the general manager of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, emailed NHL senior manager of hockey operations Kris King.
Burke wrote to remark on a public comment from a team official – both the official's name and club have been redacted – about Derek Boogaard, a tough guy who then played for the Minnesota Wild and later died of an accidental drug and alcohol overdose in 2011.
In Game 2 of the Ducks playoff series against the Wild on April 13, 2007, Boogaard hit Anaheim defenceman Kent Huskins with a knee-on-knee blow and was given a two-minute minor for tripping.
"Are you f------ kidding me?" Burke wrote King. "We are waiting to hear if he [Boogaard] is getting bounced. And we certainly expect a fine so you stop this before he cripples somebody. Shall I start whining to the media as well? This will get out of hand if something isn't done."
King forwarded the email to Campbell.
"Burkie is up 2 [games in the series] and starting to play the game," King wrote. "He worries about Boogaard and maybe so. The calls he [Boogaard] has got are right and deserved."
King wrote that a player, whose name has been redacted by the NHL, "won't fight when challenged. Any thoughts? Or just Brian being Brian."
In December, 2008, TSN journalist Bob McKenzie forwarded a story to the NHL's Campbell about Don Sanderson, a 21-year-old amateur player with the Ontario Hockey Association's Whitby Dunlops who was hospitalized in Brantford, Ont., after losing his helmet and hitting his head on the ice during a fight.
"Well, the prognosis on this kid isn't good," McKenzie wrote. "Sounds like he might not make it. If it happened in the NHL, what do you think the fallout would be? Hockey player dies or is brain dead as a result of a fight, hitting his head on the ice. It's the game's worst nightmare."
The first section of Campbell's reply is redacted. He then writes: "It is certainly scary... stand back a [sic] try and knock the guy out so he falls down on something as hard as concrete... and to think they throw off their helmets lots of times!!!! I guess if I had real balls I would go public and go hard but I won't."
Sanderson died three weeks after sustaining the injury.
Three years later, in 2011, two weeks before the NHL passed a new protocol calling for concussed players to be removed from games and sent to a "quiet room," former NHL referee Kerry Fraser sent out a mass email about a headshot New York Rangers' forward Derek Stepan delivered on Washington Capitals' defenceman Mike Green.
Fraser wrote about how he had appeared on TSN and questioned whether a suspension for Stepan was more appropriate than a fine.
Ruben Echemendia, a doctor who chairs the NHL/NHLPA Concussion Working Group, sent Fraser's email to Daly, who forwarded it to Bettman and another league lawyer.
"I'm not sure there is anything we can or should be doing, but I wanted you to be aware," Daly wrote in a March 1, 2011 email.
Bettman's entire response is redacted, as is Daly's subsequent reply.
Later in the email correspondence, Daly wrote of Fraser: "He's not the only person who thinks we should be penalizing head shots more severely than we do."
"That's not the issue. His disparaging campaign is," Bettman wrote.
In January, 2012, Meagher emailed Bettman and others a Toronto Star column quoting then-Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager Brian Burke, after Burke had complained about the rise in the number of NHL discipline hearings being conducted by Brendan Shanahan, who had succeeded Campbell as the league's chief disciplinarian.
"Brian speaking out on his view on the state of the game (fighting) today major story north of the 49th today..." Meagher wrote to Bettman, Campbell and other league executives.
Campbell replied the same day, and brought up the health of Toronto Maple Leafs' forward Colton Orr.
"Burkie missing point," Campbell emailed. "Colton Orr either knocks out opponent OR gets knocked out. We figure he has had at least 3 concussions in the last year (even though NONE are recorded)."
The remainder of Campbell's email is redacted.
Bettman then emailed Campbell and others.
"We haven't changed the rules on fighting," Bettman wrote. "What Brendan is doing has nothing to do with fighting. Hitting is only slightly down and those are the hits we don't want. Half the world wants fighting eliminated and the other half wants more... I'd say it's insane!"
The rest of the commissioner's email is redacted.
Because of the widespread redactions in the documents, it's impossible to determine the significance of some of the exchanges. For example, in May, 2013, Gerry Townend, the head athletic therapist with the Ottawa Senators, emailed Echemendia, the head of the NHL's Concussion Working Group.
Townend's entire email is redacted.
Echemendia forwarded Townend's email a day later to NHL deputy counsel Julie Grand, and she sent it to six senior NHL executives.
"Attached is an email from Ottawa's trainer – who is a trainer rep on the CWG [Concussion Working Group] – expressing the views of his fellow trainers," Grand wrote. "We will tailor our presentation to the Trainers in Vegas to address these issues."
NEW YORK – The 2016 NHL All-Star Fan Vote™ opens worldwide Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 12 p.m. ET at NHL.com/Vote and hockey fans will determine the four All-Star captains for the 2016 Honda NHL® All-Star Game on Sunday, Jan. 31 (5 p.m. ET, NBCSN, Sportsnet, TVA Sports).
As part of the new format for the 2016 Honda NHL® All-Star Game, the All-Stars will take part in a three-game tournament, played in a 3-on-3 format, and featuring four teams representing each NHL division. Fans will cast votes online at NHL.com/Vote and via a mobile ballot for one player from each Division, without regard to position. Voting concludes Friday, Jan. 1, with the top vote-getters by division – regardless of position – named All-Stars and captains. The remaining 40 NHL All-Stars will be named by the NHL Hockey Operations Department.
The ballot will include enhanced interactive features, all designed to simplify the player search options for fans, including filtering and sorting by real-time statistics, position, team and a player's trending status. Each player ballot page will include video highlights and player statistics. Fans will be permitted to select as few as one player and a maximum of four players per ballot. The maximum number of ballots cast per day for each user is 10.
The ballot page at NHL.com/Vote will include a leaderboard of the top vote-getters, as well as trending players. Vote totals will be posted to NHL.com every Tuesday, starting Dec. 8.
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N293EA/103 was noted on the afternoon of the 15th November parked next to N401US between the hangers.
Regards
Clive Bartram
From: cactus-wings@googlegroups.com [mailto:cactus-wings@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Cook Sent: 30 November 2015 20:38 To: cactus-wings@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [cactuswings 3444] Goodyear request 19/11
An early morning visit on the 19th produced a similar log to many others posted on various lists recently a couple of additions and a requestif I may
A320 UR-WRK was parked out on the field (unmarked as far as I could tell)
B-7342 B752 half in / half out of the largest hangar
N291EA MD87 fleet no 101 of Aero Air was parked along the side of the hangars, request is for a second 1 in the hangar with B-7342, all we could read was N2**** which doesn't help much !
N401US DC7 fleet no 62 was also outside the hangars
B763 9Y-LGW also near the hangars having arrived the day before from Miami
An early morning visit on the 19th produced a similar log to many others posted on various lists recently a couple of additions and a requestif I may
A320 UR-WRK was parked out on the field (unmarked as far as I could tell)
B-7342 B752 half in / half out of the largest hangar
N291EA MD87 fleet no 101 of Aero Air was parked along the side of the hangars, request is for a second 1 in the hangar with B-7342, all we could read was N2**** which doesn't help much !
N401US DC7 fleet no 62 was also outside the hangars
B763 9Y-LGW also near the hangars having arrived the day before from Miami
An early morning visit on the 19th produced a similar log to many others posted on various lists recently a couple of additions and a requestif I may
A320 UR-WRK was parked out on the field (unmarked as far as I could tell)
B-7342 B752 half in / half out of the largest hangar
N291EA MD87 fleet no 101 of Aero Air was parked along the side of the hangars, request is for a second 1 in the hangar with B-7342, all we could read was N2**** which doesn't help much !
N401US DC7 fleet no 62 was also outside the hangars
B763 9Y-LGW also near the hangars having arrived the day before from Miami
GLENDALE, Ariz. --Arizona Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker had a hat trick for the second time in as many games against the Ottawa Senators and the Coyotes completed a sweep of a three game homestand with a 4-3 win at Gila River Arena on Saturday.
Boedker has six goals of his nine goals in two games against the Senators this season and eight goals and 12 points in seven career games against Ottawa.
The Coyotes (13-9-1) are 6-4-0 at home this season after winning 11 games in Arizona in 2014-15.
Mike Hoffman had two goals for the Senators (12-6-5), who had their four-game losing streak end. Ottawa has lost six games in regulation this season, two of them against the Coyotes. Mark Stone scored and Craig Anderson made 15 saves.
Boedker, who had a hat trick in a 4-1 win against the Senators in Ottawa on Oct. 24, picked up right where he left off 39 seconds into play.
Michael Stone's shot from the point deflected off Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson and dropped into the high slot. Boedker raced in and beat Anderson over the glove with a wrist shot for seventh goal of the season.
The Senators outshot the Coyotes 18-4 and tied the game at 7:28. Kyle Turris won a battle along the boards and slid it around to Bobby Ryan behind the net. Ryan's nifty backhand pass found Hoffman charging up the slot, where he beat Lindback stick side for his ninth goal.
The Coyotes answered early in the second and held the Senators without a shot for eight minutes.
Antoine Vermette found Boedker at the near post with a pass from the corner. Anderson stopped the first two shots in tight, but Boedker scored on the third attempt at 41 seconds.
Jeffery was penalized for tripping a little more than a minute later and was exiting the box when Tobias Rieder intercepted a Karlsson pass inside the Arizona blue line. Rieder hit Jeffery in stride with a breakaway pass and he pushed a forehand past Anderson at 4:00 to give the Coyotes a 3-1 lead.
The Senators needed 27 seconds after Connor Murphy's tripping penalty before Karlsson set up Hoffman for a shot from the left circle that Lindback couldn't see through an Alex Chaisson screen to cut the Coyotes lead to 3-2 at 17:57.
Boedker completed his hat trick and restored the two-goal lead following the rebound of Max Domi's shot at 13:29.
Mark Stone got the Senators back within one with a shot over Lindback's shoulder at 14:45.
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Last season, the Arizona Coyotes didn't win their 13th game until two days after Christmas. They have a chance to reach that mark two days after Thanksgiving if they can cool off the streaking Ottawa Senators on Saturday at Gila River Arena.
Following a 2-1 overtime win against the Calgary Flames on Friday, the Coyotes have won four of the past five home games and two in the past three nights. They are 5-4-0 on home ice this season; not overly impressive until considering they won 11 of 41 home games in 2014-15.
Goalie Mike Smith has quietly stepped up lately. He is 6-2-0 with a 2.40 goals-against average in November, allowing two goals or less in five of the past six starts. He made 25 saves against the Flames on Friday as the Coyotes killed five of six Calgary power plays.
Head coach Dave Tippett, who won his 500th NHL game against the Flames, said he was unsure if Smith would play for the third time in four days or if he would play backup Anders Lindback.
The Senators have won four straight games, outscoring opponents 19-7 during that stretch.
They have won all four games by multiple goals and have a chance to do that in five straight games for the first time since Jan. 7-16, 2007.
Ottawa has been in Arizona since its 5-3 win against the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday and practiced at the arena a few hours before the Coyotes and Flames played Friday.
The Senators aren't expected to make any changes. Forward Curtis Lazar overcame a flu bug to practice Friday and will play.
Arizona will be without captain Shane Doan for a third straight game as he works through a nagging lower-body injury. The Coyotes begin a five-game, nine-day road trip against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday and hope Doan will be ready to go.
The Coyotes got one of their seven road wins in Ottawa on Oct. 24, taking a 4-1 win against the Senators thanks to a hat trick by Mikkel Boedker.
Boedker has a point in each of the past five games against Ottawa, with four goals and five assists in those games.
Status report: Wiercioch practiced with his teammates Friday and is getting closer to a return. … The Coyotes hope to have Downie ready for the long Eastern road trip.
Who's hot: Karlsson has an eight-game points streak going, tying a career high. He has five goals and seven assists during that run. … Turris, a former Coyotes player, is tied for the Senators team lead with 11 goals. … Ekman-Larsson now has 19 game-winning goal after scoring in overtime against the Flames, tying Teppo Numminen for the franchise record by a defenseman. … Richardson has four assists in his past three home games.
