Vincent Trocheck and Mika Zibanejad every had a aim and an help and the Presidents’ Trophy-winning New York Rangers held on to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 Tuesday night time for a 2-0 lead of their first-round playoff collection.

Jack Roslovic and Ok’Andre Miller additionally scored for the Rangers, and Erik Gustafsson and Alexis Lafreniere every had two assists. Igor Shesterkin stopped 22 pictures.

New York, in search of its first Stanley Cup championship in 30 years, has received 4 straight and 12 of its final 15 video games. The Rangers, third on the ability play throughout the season, had been 2 for six with the benefit and scored a short-handed aim.

Tom Wilson had a aim and an help, and Connor McMichael and Dylan Strome additionally scored for the Capitals, who had received 4 of 5 to shut the season and take the second wild card within the Jap Convention. Charlie Lindgren completed with 23 saves.

Sport 3 of the best-of-seven collection is Friday at Washington.

Washington star left wing Alex Ovechkin had two pictures on aim after the 38-year-old was held with out one in Sport 1.

With New York main 4-2, there was some pushing and shoving 6 1/2 minutes into the third interval after the Rangers’ Artemi Panarin knocked T.J. Oshie off the puck with a tough hit. The play was reviewed for a significant penalty, however none was referred to as. McMichael was as an alternative given a minor for roughing whereas WiIson skated close to the Rangers’ bench and had phrases with rookie sensation Matt Rempe.

Oshie left the ice for the dressing room, however returned with simply over 5 minutes remaining within the sport.

Wilson pulled the Capitals inside one with their second power-play aim of the night time as he deflected a shot within the air by Hendrix Lapierre previous Shesterkin with 8:15 remaining.

The Capitals pulled Lindgren for an additional skater with with 2:48 to go and had a number of probabilities, however could not get the equalizer.

The Capitals trailed 2-1 after 20 minutes and tied the rating with a power-play aim about 30 seconds after Rempe was despatched off for roughing. Strome acquired a go in entrance from Wilson and deflected it previous Shesterkin at 4:14 of the second for his first profession postseason aim. It was the Capitals’ first aim with the person benefit in 17 probabilities in opposition to the Rangers this yr.

With a Rangers energy play winding down, Roslovic fired a shot from the fitting circle over Lindgren’s blocker and left shoulder for a 3-2 lead with 7:34 remaining within the center interval.

New York pushed the result in 4-2 with a short-handed aim with 3:08 left within the second. After a turnover by the Capitals, Zibanejad — working a give-and-go with Kreider on a rush — noticed Miller trailing down the center and despatched a go again to the defenseman, who fired it previous Lindgren.

The Capitals got here into the sport targeted on getting extra pictures on aim. They did that at first, getting 5 within the first 2 1/2 minutes. Nevertheless, they managed simply two extra the remainder of the primary interval.

McMichael acquired the Capitals on the scoreboard first at 5:09. Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren knocked the puck away from T.J. Oshie, nevertheless it went proper to McMichael who shortly put it previous Shesterkin from the left aspect. It was McMichael’s first profession playoff aim and Dylan McIlrath acquired an help for his profession playoff level.

Trocheck tied it for the Rangers at 7:56 on their third shot on aim. After a attract the fitting circle, Trocheck deflected a feed from Gustafsson.

With the Rangers on their second energy play, Zibanejad fired a shot that went off the glove of Capitals defenseman Alexander Alexeyev and over Lindgren’s glove with 5:32 remaining within the first. It was Zibanejad’s seventeenth aim in 60 profession playoff video games.

The Biden administration issued last guidelines Wednesday to require airways to robotically subject money refunds for issues like delayed flights and to higher disclose charges for luggage or canceling a reservation.

The Transportation Division mentioned airways might be required to offer automated money refunds inside just a few days for canceled flights and “important” delays.

Beneath present rules, airways resolve how lengthy a delay should final earlier than triggering refunds. The administration is eradicating that wiggle room by defining a big delay as lasting at the least three hours for home flights and 6 hours for worldwide ones.

Airways nonetheless might be allowed to supply one other flight or a journey credit score as a substitute, however shoppers can reject the supply.

The rule may even apply to refunds of checked-bag charges if the bag isn’t delivered inside 12 hours for home flights or 15 to 30 hours for worldwide flights. And it’ll apply to charges for issues akin to seat choice or an web connection if the airline fails to offer the service.

Complaints about refunds skyrocketed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as airways canceled flights and, even after they didn’t, many individuals didn’t really feel protected sharing a airplane cabin with different passengers.

Airways for America, a commerce group for big U.S. carriers, famous that refund complaints to the Transportation Division have fallen sharply since mid-2020. A spokesperson for the group mentioned airways “supply a variety of choices — together with totally refundable fares — to extend accessibility to air journey and to assist prospects make ticket picks that finest match their wants.”

The group mentioned the 11 largest U.S. airways issued $43 billion in buyer refunds from 2020 by means of 2023.

The Transportation Division issued a separate rule requiring airways and ticket brokers to reveal upfront what they cost for checked and carry-on baggage and canceling or altering a reservation. On airline web sites, the charges should be proven the primary time prospects see a worth and schedule.

The rule may even oblige airways to inform passengers they’ve a assured seat they aren’t required to pay further for, though it doesn’t bar airways from charging individuals to decide on particular seats. Many airways now cost further for sure spots, together with exit-row seats and people close to the entrance of the cabin.

The company mentioned the rule will save shoppers greater than $500 million a yr.

Airways for America mentioned its members “supply transparency and huge option to shoppers” from their first search.

The brand new guidelines will take impact over the subsequent two years. They’re a part of a broad administration assault on what President Joe Biden calls “junk charges.” Final week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg introduced that his division will let state officers in 15 states assist implement federal airline shopper safety legal guidelines.

The Rangers nonetheless had an opportunity when a crucial face-off was held deep of their zone. Initially, New York middle Buddy O’Connor was to take the draw however — towards his gamers’ needs — Coach Patrick selected Edgar Laprade to interchange him.

For the New York, it was the kiss of loss of life.

Seconds earlier than the linesperson dropped the puck, Detroit middle George Gee motioned his wing, Pete Babando, to maneuver again 5 toes. Babando obliged and with surgical precision, Gee delivered the puck and Babado took a screened shot previous Rayner.

“It was heartbreaking,” Raleigh mentioned, “and the humorous factor was that Babando later performed with me on the Rangers.”

Nor was that the top of the tribulation. Patrick’s sudden transfer would destroy the Rangers’ playoff hopes for 5 straight years and ultimately price Boucher his job.

“No one may have carried out a greater job of teaching the Rangers than Patrick,” Boucher wrote, “however in that Detroit sequence I sensed that one thing extra was bothering him.”

There was. Through the Remaining, Bruins GM Artwork Ross undercut Boucher and supplied Patrick an analogous gig in Boston. It was an unlucky transfer, particularly since Boucher coached the 1940 Cup-winning Rangers for who Patrick had starred.

“Earlier than skipping out on us, Lynn mentioned he felt a ‘loyalty’ to me, since I began him off in teaching,” Boucher lamented.

That loyalty evaporated when Lynn signed with Boston in 1950. The abandoned Boucher by no means may discover an ample substitute. First, he tried 1940 Cup-winner Neil Colville, then-Rangers and future hockey Corridor of Fame proper wing Invoice Cook dinner and, lastly, Muzz Patrick. Lynn’s child brother.

In the meantime the Lynn-coached Bruins clinched a playoff berth each season from 1950-51 by 1954-55. Boucher’s Rangers failed to achieve the postseason in every.

The devastating impact of Patrick’s walkout got here to an finish in Might 1955, when Boucher was fired and by no means managed an NHL membership once more.

As for Lynn Patrick, the closest he ever got here to successful the Stanley Cup was on that fateful night time at Detroit’s Olympia, when Raleigh’s shot was a half-inch away from beating Lumley.

Many years later, Rayner — lengthy into retirement — was requested if he remembered something about Raleigh’s shot that hit the put up after which went the unsuitable method.

“Actually,” Rayner concluded, “I give it some thought day-after-day!”

CHICAGO (AP) — The “rat gap” is gone.

A Chicago sidewalk landmark some residents affectionately known as the “rat gap” was eliminated Wednesday after metropolis officers decided the part bearing the imprint of an animal was broken and wanted to get replaced, officers stated.

The imprint has been a quirk of a residential block in Chicago’s North Aspect neighborhood of Roscoe Village for years, however it discovered contemporary fame in January after a Chicago comic shared a photograph on the social platform X.

The eye, nonetheless, shortly grew outdated for neighbors who complained about guests in any respect hours, typically leaving cash and different gadgets scattered throughout the sidewalk. Plus, most within the neighborhood argue that the imprint was really brought on by a squirrel.

Erica Schroeder, a spokesperson for the Chicago Division of Transportation, stated the sq. of sidewalk “containing the well-known ‘Chicago rat gap’” is now in momentary storage.

She stated that the place the slab of sidewalk, which has an impression resembling the define of a rat — claws, tail and all — will finally find yourself is anticipated to be a “collaborative choice between the town departments and the mayor’s workplace.”

Schroeder stated the rat gap part, in addition to different parts of sidewalk alongside Roscoe Road, had been eliminated by Division of Transportation crews Wednesday morning after the company inspected them and decided they wanted to get replaced due to injury.

Georgina Ulrich, a neighbor, shot video of crews utilizing a concrete noticed, a forklift and at last a truck to take away the slab and drive it away.

“All this for a rat imprint,” Ulrich stated in one of many clips.

New concrete was poured later Wednesday, Schroeder stated.

“The alderman’s workplace has positively acquired complaints from neighbors about individuals gathering and other people putting a bunch of various objects within the public manner there,” she advised The Related Press.

Alderman Scott Waguespack’s workplace had been receiving complaints for a number of months, each about that portion of sidewalk being uneven and other people congregating there to have a look at and {photograph} the rat gap, Paul Sajovec, Waguespack’s chief of workers, stated Wednesday.

“It was only a mixture of the truth that the sidewalk was uneven and likewise that individuals would present up at numerous instances of the day and evening and make lots of noise and create different points and issues,” he stated.

In January, somebody stuffed within the rat gap with a cloth resembling white plaster, though the impression was shortly dug out by followers, the Chicago Tribune reported on the time.

Chicago resident Winslow Dumaine advised the newspaper that individuals dwelling close by stated the imprint had been there for almost twenty years.

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At this time, the Federal Commerce Fee issued a last rule to advertise competitors by banning noncompetes nationwide, defending the basic freedom of staff to alter jobs, growing innovation, and fostering new enterprise formation.

“Noncompete clauses maintain wages low, suppress new concepts, and rob the American economic system of dynamism, together with from the greater than 8,500 new startups that might be created a yr as soon as noncompetes are banned,” stated FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC’s last rule to ban noncompetes will guarantee Individuals have the liberty to pursue a brand new job, begin a brand new enterprise, or carry a brand new concept to market.”

The FTC estimates that the ultimate rule banning noncompetes will result in new enterprise formation rising by 2.7% per yr, leading to greater than 8,500 extra new companies created every year. The ultimate rule is predicted to lead to larger earnings for staff, with estimated earnings growing for the common employee by a further $524 per yr, and it’s anticipated to decrease well being care prices by as much as $194 billion over the following decade. As well as, the ultimate rule is predicted to assist drive innovation, resulting in an estimated common enhance of 17,000 to 29,000 extra patents every year for the following 10 years below the ultimate rule.

Noncompetes are a widespread and sometimes exploitative observe imposing contractual situations that stop staff from taking a brand new job or beginning a brand new enterprise. Noncompetes typically drive staff to both keep in a job they wish to depart or bear different vital harms and prices, reminiscent of being pressured to modify to a lower-paying subject, being pressured to relocate, being pressured to depart the workforce altogether, or being pressured to defend in opposition to costly litigation. An estimated 30 million staff—almost one in 5 Individuals—are topic to a noncompete.

Underneath the FTC’s new rule, present noncompetes for the overwhelming majority of staff will not be enforceable after the rule’s efficient date. Current noncompetes for senior executives – who characterize lower than 0.75% of staff – can stay in drive below the FTC’s last rule, however employers are banned from getting into into or trying to implement any new noncompetes, even when they contain senior executives. Employers will likely be required to supply discover to staff apart from senior executives who’re certain by an present noncompete that they won’t be imposing any noncompetes in opposition to them.

In January 2023, the FTC issued a proposed rule which was topic to a 90-day public remark interval. The FTC obtained greater than 26,000 feedback on the proposed rule, with over 25,000 feedback in assist of the FTC’s proposed ban on noncompetes. The feedback knowledgeable the FTC’s last rulemaking course of, with the FTC fastidiously reviewing every remark and making adjustments to the proposed rule in response to the general public’s suggestions.

Within the last rule, the Fee has decided that it’s an unfair methodology of competitors, and due to this fact a violation of Part 5 of the FTC Act, for employers to enter into noncompetes with staff and to implement sure noncompetes.

The Fee discovered that noncompetes are inclined to negatively have an effect on aggressive situations in labor markets by inhibiting environment friendly matching between staff and employers. The Fee additionally discovered that noncompetes are inclined to negatively have an effect on aggressive situations in product and repair markets, inhibiting new enterprise formation and innovation. There may be additionally proof that noncompetes result in elevated market focus and better costs for customers.

Alternate options to Noncompetes

The Fee discovered that employers have a number of options to noncompetes that also allow corporations to guard their investments with out having to implement a noncompete.

Commerce secret legal guidelines and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) each present employers with well-established means to guard proprietary and different delicate info. Researchers estimate that over 95% of staff with a noncompete have already got an NDA.

The Fee additionally finds that as a substitute of utilizing noncompetes to lock in staff, employers that want to retain staff can compete on the deserves for the employee’s labor providers by enhancing wages and dealing situations.

Modifications from the NPRM

Underneath the ultimate rule, present noncompetes for senior executives can stay in drive. Employers, nonetheless, are prohibited from getting into into or imposing new noncompetes with senior executives. The ultimate rule defines senior executives as staff incomes greater than $151,164 yearly and who’re in policy-making positions.

Moreover, the Fee has eradicated a provision within the proposed rule that might have required employers to legally modify present noncompetes by formally rescinding them. That change will assist to streamline compliance.

As an alternative, below the ultimate rule, employers will merely have to supply discover to staff certain to an present noncompete that the noncompete settlement won’t be enforced in opposition to them sooner or later. To help employers’ compliance with this requirement, the Fee has included mannequin language within the last rule that employers can use to speak to staff. 

The Fee vote to approve the issuance of the ultimate rule was 3-2 with Commissioners Melissa Holyoak and Andrew N. Ferguson voting no. Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Alvaro Bedoya, Melissa Holyoak and Andrew N. Ferguson every issued separate statements. Chair Lina M. Khan will challenge a separate assertion.

The last rule will develop into efficient 120 days after publication within the Federal Register.

As soon as the rule is efficient, market contributors can report details about a suspected violation of the rule to the Bureau of Competitors by emailing noncompete@ftc.gov. 

HOUSTON (AP) — A decide has declined to dismiss tons of of lawsuits filed towards rap star Travis Scott over his function within the lethal 2021 Astroworld competition by which 10 individuals have been killed in a crowd surge.

State District Choose Kristen Hawkins issued a one-page order denying Scott’s request that he and his touring and manufacturing firm, XX World, ought to be dropped from the case. The order was signed on Tuesday however made public on Wednesday.

Scott’s attorneys had argued throughout an April 15 listening to that he was not liable for security planning and anticipating attainable risks on the live performance on Nov. 5, 2021.

They argued Scott’s duties and obligations associated to the competition solely handled artistic features, together with performing and advertising and marketing.

Nevertheless, Noah Wexler, an lawyer for the household of Madison Dubiski, 23, one of many 10 individuals killed, stated Scott, whose actual title is Jacques Bermon Webster II, had a “acutely aware disregard for security” on the sold-out competition. Wexler argued Scott inspired individuals who didn’t have tickets to interrupt in and ignored orders from competition organizers to cease the live performance when instructed to take action as individuals within the crowd have been damage or dying.

Earlier this month, Hawkins dismissed lawsuits towards Drake and a number of other different people and firms concerned within the present.

The lawsuit filed by Dubiski’s household is ready to be the primary one to go to trial on Might 6.

The households of the ten individuals who died, plus tons of who have been injured, sued Scott and Stay Nation — the competition’s promoter — in addition to dozens of different people and entities.

After an investigation by Houston police, no costs have been filed towards Scott, and a grand jury declined to indict him and 5 different individuals on any felony counts associated to the lethal live performance.

These killed, who ranged in age from 9 to 27, died from compression asphyxia, which an knowledgeable likened to being crushed by a automotive.

A number of the lawsuits filed by the households of the useless and the tons of who have been injured have been settled, together with these filed by the households of 4 of the useless.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A fired minor league umpire sued Main League Baseball on Wednesday, claiming he was sexually harassed by a feminine umpire and discriminated in opposition to as a result of he’s male and bisexual.

Brandon Cooper, an umpire who labored within the minor league Arizona Advanced League final yr, filed the go well with in federal courtroom in Manhattan in opposition to MLB and PDL Blue Inc., an affiliated entity.

“Traditionally the MLB has had a homogenous roster of umpires working in each the minor and main leagues,” the go well with claimed. “Particularly, thus far there has by no means been a lady who has labored in a (common) season sport performed within the majors, and most umpires are nonetheless Caucasian males. To attempt to repair its gender and racial variety problem, defendants have applied an unlawful variety quota requiring that ladies be promoted no matter benefit.”

Cooper’s go well with says he attended umpire coaching camps in 2022 and ’23 and was informed by former umpire Ed Rapuano, now an umpire evaluator, and Darren Spagnardi, an umpire growth supervisor, in January 2023 that MLB needed to embrace a minimum of two girls amongst 10 new hires.

Cooper says he was invited to spring coaching in 2023, placed on a taxi squad and knowledgeable by Dusty Dellinger, senior supervisor of umpire administration, that ladies and minority candidates needed to be employed first. Cooper was assigned to the ACL in late March and mentioned he acquired a excessive ranking in June from former huge league umpire Jim Reynolds, now an umpire supervisor.

Cooper alleged fellow umpire Gina Quartararo, then within the ACL and now within the Florida State League, realized that Cooper was bisexual and derided him and fellow umpire Kevin Bruno with homophobic slurs and crude remarks. Cooper mentioned he notified Dellinger, then was informed by MLB he needed to bear sensitivity coaching and later that he was being accused of violating the minor league anti-discrimination and harassment coverage.

Billy Bean, MLB’s senior vp of variety, fairness and inclusion, met with Cooper, the lawsuit mentioned, and knowledgeable the umpire that Quartararo claimed she was victimized as the one feminine umpire within the ACL. Cooper mentioned he informed Bean there was video proof of Quartararo’s alleged misconduct, which included bodily motion.

Cooper mentioned he was skipped for the playoffs and fired in October, and he claimed he was the one one let go from amongst 26 umpires within the group that was employed.

He alleged a hostile work surroundings and wrongful termination and/or retaliation due to gender and sexual orientation below New York state and metropolis legislation. MLB is predicated in New York.

MLB declined to touch upon pending litigation, in accordance with spokesman Michael Teevan, and in addition mentioned it was trying to contact Quartararo to verify if she needed to remark. Quartararo was amongst 9 girls who’re working as minor league umpires this season.

Jen Pawol this yr grew to become the primary girl to umpire main league spring coaching since 2007 and is working at Triple-A, one degree under the majors. She is in place to be a trip/harm substitute callup to the large leagues.

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The Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) issued a brand new rule on April 23, 2024, banning new non-compete agreements in all employment contexts. The extremely anticipated rule, which was first proposed in draft type in January 2023, is anticipated to have important impacts on employers in a large swath of industries who’ve historically relied on non-competes to guard firm secrets and techniques and mental property, in addition to to encourage funding in employee coaching. It is going to face sure challenges from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and different teams, and whether or not it in the end is enforced by a court docket stays to be seen.

Background

The rule comes on the heels of a 2021 government order from the Biden Administration encouraging businesses to enact a “complete authorities” strategy to encouraging competitors. Following the order, the FTC introduced its intention to reinvigorate Part 5 of the FTC Act, which authorizes the company to forestall companies from utilizing “unfair strategies of competitors.” In a press release in assist of the rule, Chair Lina Khan mentioned that “[t]he freedom to alter jobs is core to financial liberty and to a aggressive, thriving financial system” and that “[n]oncompetes block employees from freely switching jobs, depriving them of upper wages and higher working situations, and depriving companies of a expertise pool that they should construct and develop. By ending this follow, the FTC’s proposed rule would promote larger dynamism, innovation, and wholesome competitors.” Employers and others have strongly opposed the rule, asserting that the FTC doesn’t have the authorized authority to control competitors on this method and that the rule “opens up a Pandora’s field the place this fee or future commissions could possibly be actually micromanaging each facet of the financial system.”

As handed by the FTC’s Commissioners on a 3-2 vote amongst partisan strains, the rule applies to anybody who works for a for-profit employer, whether or not paid or unpaid, and to impartial contractors. Particularly, the brand new rule prohibits employers from getting into into new non-competes with any worker, together with senior executives (which is a change from the proposed rule), or representing to any worker that the worker is topic to a non-compete.

Employers could proceed to implement present non-competes with senior executives. Employers should notify all different present and former employees that any present non-competes are now not enforceable earlier than the rule goes into impact. Employers searching for to offer discover could depend on mannequin language included within the rule to fulfill the discover obligation and people who do are granted a “protected harbor” for compliance.

As a result of the FTC’s authority solely extends to for-profit companies, the rule won’t have an effect on employment agreements entered into by employees employed by nonprofit organizations. The rule additionally permits restricted use of non-compete agreements between franchisees and franchisors.

The proposed rule additionally doesn’t apply to non-competition agreements entered into by an individual in the course of the “bona fide sale of a enterprise,” of the particular person’s possession curiosity in a enterprise entity or of all or considerably all of a enterprise’s working belongings.

Conclusion and Takeaways

Employers lined by the rule ought to anticipate to face added complexity to the already multifaceted problem of hiring and retaining expertise. Shifting ahead, employers might be able to look to employment agreements utilized in states comparable to California, the place non-competes had been already unenforceable, for steering on restructuring their employment agreements to adjust to the brand new rule.

The brand new rule will turn out to be efficient 120 days after the FTC publishes it within the Federal Register. Coated employers have till the efficient date to return into compliance with the rule. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has vowed to problem the rule in court docket, maybe as early as April 24, 2024, and thus whether or not the rule in the end is enforceable is but to be decided. There’s a sturdy chance that the district court docket that hears the lawsuit may have the power to problem a short lived restraining order or preliminary injunction of the rule, which might delay the implementation of the rule whereas the problem to its validity performs out within the courts.

For extra data and steering on the FTC rule and its influence, contact the authors or one other member of Holland & Knight’s Labor, Employment and Advantages Group, Antitrust Crew or Client Safety Protection and Compliance Crew.

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Águilas y Tuzos se miden esta noche en el estadio Azteca, en el primer duelo de las semifinales de la Champions Cup

América y Pachuca afrontan con sus 11 de lujo el juego de ida de las semifinales de la Concacaf Champions Cup que se celebrará en el Estadio Azteca.

El América pretende que Pachuca sea quién se la pague después de perder el pasado sábado en el Clásico Capitalino en contra de Pumas y ante ello, el técnico André Jardine decidió salir con todas sus armas para buscar la ventaja en el primer juego de la serie.

La duda dentro del equipo emplumado fue Igor Lichnovsky, quien resultó con un fuerte golpe en la pierna, pero no sufrió una lesión mayor en la pierna. El defensa chileno se quejó amargamente de la patada que recibió por parte de Piero Quispe, quien no recibió la tarjeta roja.

El futbolista logró recuperarse y estará en la defensa central del América en el duelo ante los Tuzos.

América repetirá el mismo cuadro del pasado sábado, el cual encabeza en la portería por Luis Ángel Malagón. En la defensa aparecen Israel Reyes, Sebastián Cáceres, Igor Lichnovsky y Cristian Calderón. En tanto, en el centro del campo figuran Álvaro Fidalgo, Jonathan dos Santos, Alejandro Zendejas, Julián Quiñones y Diego Valdés y como centro delantero está Henry Martín.

Por su parte, el Pachuca guardó a sus mejores elementos en el reciente encuentro de Liga MX contra de Santos y para salir a la cancha del Estadio Azteca con su mejor 11.

El Pachuca sale en la portería con Carlos Moreno. En la defensa cuentan con Jorge Berlanga, Gustavo Cabral, Andrés Micolta y Bryan González. En el centro del campo apuesta con Pedro Pedraza, Nelson Deossa, Emilio Rodríguez, Oussama Idrissi, Erick Sánchez y en punta está Salomón Rondón.