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THEY TALKED ABOUT KARL MALDEN PLAYING BROOKS IN THAT TV MOVIE

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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U.S. men’s hockey Coach Ron Wilson had a reunion with Herb Brooks, who was his coach with the Minnesota North Stars and helped him arrange to play for the Swiss team Davos.

Brooks, in Nagano to coach the French team, and Wilson had a long chat Wednesday morning before the U.S. team practiced. “We talked in general, about playing on the big ice surface,” Wilson said. “I’ve spoken at length in the past with Herb about hockey. He has a brilliant hockey mind.’

“If anybody understands the way the game is played in Europe as far as the coaching point of view, it’s him, and he tries to instill that in other coaches.”

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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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