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Get a glimpse of the future Saturday

By Helene Elliott
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Want to get a peek at some potential NHL stars of the next decade?

The Junior Ducks, a team of 8- and 9-year-olds, will scrimmage against a team from Beijing on Saturday at Anaheim Ice, the Ducks’ practice facility. Game time is 5:50 p.m., admission is free, and the cute quotient is sure to be high.

There are many excellent youth hockey programs in Southern California, but this Junior Ducks team has the advantage of some good bloodlines. One of its members is Leevi Selanne, youngest son of Ducks winger Teemu Selanne.

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-- 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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