GAME OF THE WEEK

By Helene Elliott

Nov. 25, 2003 12 AM PT

NEW JERSEY AT MIGHTY DUCKS

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Net 2

It’s a rematch of the Stanley Cup finals, won by the Devils in seven games, although they lost all three games in Anaheim. It’s the second stop of a four-game trip for the Devils, who are unbeaten in 11 games (9-0-2). After this trip, the Devils play only three more games out of the Eastern time zone, the last Jan. 31 at St. Louis. Goalie Martin Brodeur has picked up where he left off last spring. He has started 17 of the Devils’ 18 games and has compiled a 1.68 goals-against average and .923 save percentage, including three shutouts. His Duck counterpart, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, has become sharper after a slow start but isn’t the dominant force he was last spring.

-- Helene Elliott

Hockey

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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