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Loktionov hurts shoulder; Schenn becomes King for a day

By Helene Elliott
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Short on forwards after losing Andrei Loktionov to a dislocated shoulder, the Kings today signed center Brayden Schenn to a one-day amateur tryout agreement. He skated with the team during the morning skate at GM Place in Vancouver, Canada, and is expected to make his NHL debut tonight against the Canucks, according to a team spokesman.

Schenn, chosen fifth by the Kings in the June entry draft and a late cut during training camp, on Wednesday played in nearby Victoria for a Canadian junior all-star team in a tournament against a Russian junior team.

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With center Jarret Stoll unable to play in the Kings’ 3-1 victory at Edmonton on Wednesday because of an unspecified injury, Schenn zoomed up the depth chart and will get a chance tonight.

Loktionov, 19, had been called up from minor league Manchester on Monday and was injured in his NHL debut Wednesday. He was placed on injured reserve. He spent Wednesday night in an Edmonton hospital but was expected to fly to Vancouver today to meet the team. The Kings are short on centers at the minor league level too after the injury to Loktionov and a previous injury to Justin Azevedo.

-- 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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