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Kings after two: Still Calgary 1, Kings 0

By Helene Elliott
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The second period was scoreless, and the Flames had the only power play. They gained that advantage after Mark Giordano crunched Kings captain Dustin Brown in front of the Kings’ bench and Raitis Ivanans took exception. Ivanans was penalized for roughing at 13:56 and Giordano wasn’t penalized because the hit, though hard, was clean.

The Flames managed two shots during that advantage, including a 45-foot slap shot by Jarome Iginla that Jonathan Quick managed to keep in front of him and smother.

Ivanans, who has no points this season, nearly got his name on the scoresheet in someplace other than the list of penalties. He had two good close-in chances at 16:24 and 16:25 that were among Miikka Kiprusoff’s 12 saves.

The Kings and the Flames had 11 shots each in the second period. Calgary had a 21-19 lead in shots after two periods.

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-- Helene Elliott, from Calgary, 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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