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Winding Road Points East Again

By LISA DILLMAN and HELENE ELLIOTT
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Welcome to the travel hell of the Western Conference.

At least that’s the way King forwards Kevin Stevens and Ray Ferraro are starting to feel about their recent itinerary. Both players are accustomed to Eastern Conference travel. Ferraro played in the East (Hartford, the New York Islanders and the New York Rangers), and Stevens played in Pittsburgh and Boston.

“Whoever made the schedule--going east three times in one month--it’s asinine,” Stevens said.

Said Ferraro: “This is unbelievable.”

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The Kings will try to build off the momentum of a strong third period and overtime in the 0-0 tie against Calgary last Saturday.

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“We took a baby step,” Ferraro said of Saturday’s game. “We didn’t give up a whole lot of scoring chances. In the past, we’d get one and give one up.”

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Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman is a former sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times; she left in 2016. She has covered the Kings, the Ducks, the Clippers, professional tennis, soccer and Olympic sports at five Summer Games and two Winter Games for the newspaper since 1992.

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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