Ducks tonight

By Helene Elliott

Dec. 16, 2008 12 AM PT

VS. NEW YORK RANGERS

Time: 7.

Where: Honda Center.

On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 830.

Records: Ducks 17-11-3, Rangers 20-11-2.

Record vs. Rangers (2007-08): 1-0.

Update: The Ducks’ home winning streak is five, a season best, and they’ve scored at least four goals in their last three home games. Overall, they’ve won three of their last four games and seven of 10 (7-3-0). Oddly, they’re 8-1-3 in their last 12 games against the Rangers starting with a win Feb. 4, 1998. The Rangers, right behind Boston for the best record in the East, have played the most games of any NHL team (33). They’re also the NHL’s best penalty killers, at 90.7%.

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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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