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There are 31 teams in the National Hockey League.

All of them fly charter for road trips.

But for the past several years, only one of them has allowed reporters to travel together with the team.

That is, until now.

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Days after the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun published a leaked video that showed a vanload of Ottawa players talking crap about an assistant coach during an Uber ride in Arizona, the Senators informed veteran hockey reporter Ken Warren that the Sun and Citizen would no longer be allowed to travel with the team.

Warren was literally standing at the airport gate when he was kicked off the flight on Friday, and though he got on a later commercial flight, he ended up missing that day’s practice in Tampa Bay.

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The Senators did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the last-minute notice indicates that this was their way of hitting back at the Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa Sun for publishing an Uber video that the Senators had hoped would never see the light of day.