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DARK ARENA: Sunday was the deadline for...

By Jerry Hicks, Eric Lichtblau and Helene Elliott
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DARK ARENA: Sunday was the deadline for National Hockey League teams to notify President Gil Stein if they wanted to move next season. None did (B1). That’s bad news for Anaheim Arena, scheduled to open in May. It had hoped to lure a major hockey franchise after this season. . . . But says Stein: “I don’t have any reason to believe anyone’s planning to try to move there.” Without a sports team, the arena will try to live off concerts.

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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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