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Ducks launch rink development program

By Helene Elliott
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The Ducks launched a major initiative Monday at Corona Inline, one of three rinks the club now owns and operates.

The initiative, called THE RINKS, is designed to introduce kids to hockey and get them involved in the game at all levels. The program includes an inline facility in Huntington Beach and at Anaheim Ice, where the Ducks usually practice.

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Teemu Selanne, Chris Pronger, Rob Niedermayer and Bobby Ryan of the Ducks coached the ceremonial first game in Corona, guiding a group of players 8 years old and younger. The ‘Teemunators,’ coached by Selanne and Ryan, defeated ‘Pronger’s Pride,’ coached by Pronger and Niedermayer, 4-2.

Maybe that’s the secret to the Ducks’ struggles this season: they think they’re playing roller hockey.

The three rinks in the program are registering youth and adult players for their hockey programs. More information is available at www.the-rinks.com.

-- Helene Elliott

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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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