Blake Remains Hospitalized

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Sept. 14, 1996 12 AM PT

King defenseman Rob Blake, hospitalized Thursday for treatment of an infection in his right elbow, said Friday the swelling had subsided but he expects to remain on intravenous medication for several more days at Montreal General Hospital.

“My elbow is still pretty bad. I’m not sure how long I’ll be here,” said Blake, who will watch from his hospital bed tonight when his Canadian teammates play the United States in the World Cup final at the Molson Centre.

An elbow infection also knocked St. Louis Blues defenseman Al MacInnis out of the tournament, and the Blues announced this week he will be idled a month. However, Blake said his infection had been caught early, and if all goes well he might miss no more than a week of the Kings’ training camp.

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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.

Blake Remains Hospitalized

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