The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

NOTES Predators swap Petterson to Coyotes for Dauphin, Helewka:

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The Nashville Predators have traded Emil Pettersson to the Arizona Coyotes for forwards Laurent Dauphin and Adam Helewka. The Predators announced the deal Friday. Pettersson, 25, has 33 goals in 49 games with the Predators’ AHL affiliate in Milwaukee this season, and the 6-foot-2, 170-pound native of Sundsvall, Sweden, originally was a sixth-round pick by Nashville in the 2013 entry draft. The Predators get a pair of 23-year-old players in Dauphin and Helewka who have been playing with the AHL’s Tucson Roadrunner­s. Dauphin has played in 35 career NHL games with Arizona, including one game this season, and he has 192 career AHL games after being the 39th pick overall by the Coyotes in 2013. Helewka is second on the Roadrunner­s with 31 points in 41 games, and the 6-2, 205-pound forward has played in 165 career AHL games after being the 106th draft pick in 2015 by San Jose. Flyers’ van Riemsdyk fined $5,000 for high-sticking:

Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk has been fined $5,000 for high-sticking Kings defenseman Alec Martinez during Los Angeles’ 3-2 shootout win at Philadelph­ia. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced the fine on Friday. Van Riemsdyk was docked the maximum amount under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The high-sticking occurred just over one minute into the first period of Thursday night’s game. Van Riemsdyk was not penalized.

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