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By HELENE ELLIOTT

April 22, 1999 12 AM PT

Dave Lewis, one of the Red Wing associate coaches, said he would someday like to be a head coach but would not discuss the Kings’ coaching vacancy. Lewis, a former King defenseman, has spent 11 years on Detroit’s coaching staff and is well-regarded around the NHL.

His name has come up on the list of potential candidates to succeed Larry Robinson, whose contract was not renewed.

“I’ve had no contact with them, nothing,” Lewis said. “There’s just an association because I played for them and I’m in coaching.”

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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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