GAME OF THE WEEK

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Feb. 3, 2004 12 AM PT

This has been a fierce rivalry for nearly a decade. It’s also a potential preview of the West final. The Red Wings lead the NHL with 174 goals, and the scoring is well distributed, with Pavel Datsyuk leading at 24. Tomas Holmstrom has four goals in his last three games and is one of the NHL’s most abrasive but effective forwards around the net. Colorado’s big off-season signings of free agents Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne has yet to really pay off -- they haven’t scored goals in the same game -- but early-season acquisition Steve Konowalchuk has added versatility to a deep forward corps.

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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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