Kings Sign Four, Including Goalies

By HELENE ELLIOTT

July 13, 1996 12 AM PT

The Kings on Friday announced the signing of goaltenders Stephane Fiset and Byron Dafoe, defenseman Mattias Norstrom and center Nathan LaFayette. Norstrom, LaFayette and Dafoe had been Group 2 (restricted) free agents.

Fiset, recently acquired from Colorado for Eric Lacroix and expected to be the top goalie next season, signed a three-year deal. Dafoe, who played 47 games last season for the Kings and had a 3.87 goals-against average, signed for a year.

Norstrom, acquired from the New York Rangers last season in the Jari Kurri trade, signed for three years and LaFayette, who was also part of that trade, agreed to a two-year contract.

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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.

Kings Sign Four, Including Goalies

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