Kings tonight

By Helene Elliott

Dec. 20, 2008 12 AM PT

AT DETROIT

Time: 4 PST.

On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 1150.

Where: Joe Louis Arena.

Records: Kings 13-13-6, Red Wings 21-6-4.

Record vs. Red Wings: 0-1-1.

Update: Shut out Friday in Buffalo -- the fifth time they’ve been blanked this season -- the Kings finish a back-to-back sequence today in Detroit. They’re 1-5-4 in their last 10 games there, the lone victory being a 6-2 decision last Feb. 7. The Red Wings shut out the league-leading Sharks on Thursday in what was supposed to be a “statement” game. If it said anything, it’s that the defending champions won’t relinquish their title easily. Goalie Chris Osgood has been idled by a sore groin muscle, so Ty Conklin had the shutout Thursday.

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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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