Former Ducks and U.S. coach Ron Wilson is recovering from a stroke

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Curtis Zupke is a former multiplatform editor and staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He covered hockey for The Times, the Orange County Register and NHL.com, and his work has also appeared in Hockey News, the Chicago Tribune and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, among other papers, and for Associated Press. He was born and raised in the South Bay and started as a sports writer in Southern California in 1999.