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Kings’ Wayne Simmonds week to week after knee surgery

By Helene Elliott
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Right wing Wayne Simmonds underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his left knee [updated] Monday afternoon at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. The procedure was performed by Dr. Ronald Kvitne.

The Kings said in a statement that his time frame for returning to the ice is week to week and added that he will be reevaluated in about a week to get a better idea of his progress and when he might play again.

Simmonds had nine goals and 20 points in 33 games. No one on the Kings has been able to say how or when he was injured.

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-- Helene Elliott from Vancouver, Canada

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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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