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Kings activate Preissing, put Ivanans on injured reserve

By Helene Elliott
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The Kings activated defenseman Tom Preissing off injured reserve Sunday and put winger Raitis Ivanans on injured reserve because of what they’re calling an upper-body injury.

Preissing has played only 22 games this season because Coach Terry Murray didn’t think he competed hard enough and because he later developed a case of vertigo. His trade value is low, but the Kings may try to ship him elsewhere before Wednesday’s noon Pacific Time trade deadline.

Ivanans collided with a Red Wings player in the second period of the Kings’ game Friday at Detroit and got the worst of the impact. He has two points and a team-high 115 penalty minutes in 60 games.

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The press release the Kings sent about these moves -- and their magnetic schedule and their media guide -- all say their game today at Chicago was to be broadcast on FS West. But it’s actually on Prime Ticket.

-- 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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