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On November 25, 2013, ten former players, Gary Leeman, Rick Vaive, Brad Aitken, Darren Banks, Curt Bennett, Richie Dunn, Warren Holmes, Bob Manno, Blair Stewart and Morris Titanic sued the league for negligence on protecting players from concussions. The suit came three months after the NFL agreed to pay former players [[United States dollar|US]]$765 million due to a player safety lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=437509 |title=Former NHL players sue league over concussions |publisher=Tsn.ca |date=November 25, 2013 |accessdate=March 14, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131131031/http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=437509 |archivedate=January 31, 2014 }}</ref>
===Women in the NHL===
In 1992 [[Manon Rhéaume]], from Canada, became the first woman to play in a NHL game, which also made her the first woman to play in any of the major professional North American sports leagues; she played for the [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] against the [[St. Louis Blues]], and stopped seven of nine shots.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=642005|title=Part 1: Manon Rhéaume shatters hockey's gender barrier|work=NHL.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whockey.com/profile/canada/rheaume.html|title=Manon Rheaume|publisher=}}</ref> In 2016 Dawn Braid was hired as the Arizona Coyotes’ skating coach, making her the first female full-time coach in the NHL.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bieler |first=Des |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/24/nhls-first-female-full-time-coach-hired-by-arizona-coyotes/ |title=NHL’s first female full-time coach hired by Arizona Coyotes |publisher=The Washington Post |date= |accessdate=2016-08-25}}</ref>
==Organizational structure==
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