Fiset Excited About Future With Kings

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Sept. 17, 1996 12 AM PT

Stephane Fiset, who will start in goal tonight in the Kings’ exhibition game at Denver against the Colorado Avalanche, has a tough act to follow. Byron Dafoe set a high standard by stopping 31 shots Sunday in the Kings’ exhibition opener. Fiset, who did not allow a goal in two scrimmages and an intrasquad game, is ready for the challenge.

“If I play good, Larry [Robinson, the Kings’ coach] is going to put me in the net,” Fiset said. “I’ll just wait to see what happens.”

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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.

Fiset Excited About Future With Kings

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