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Kings’ Robitaille to get award

By Helene Elliott
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Luc Robitaille (pictured at left), the Kings’ president of business operations, on Tuesday will receive an award recognizing the Kings’ support of U.S. troops.

The Kings honor a member of the military before every game by inviting that person onto the ice for the national anthem and recognizing him or her on the scoreboard during the game.

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The award will be presented before the Kings’ game against Dallas at Staples Center -- on Veterans’ Day -- by Step Up 4 Vets. The organization’s founder, Patricia Kennedy, will give Robitaille a medallion.

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

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.

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