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Ducks officials to talk to Sundin

By Helene Elliott and Chris Foster
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Ducks executives are scheduled to talk to free-agent center Mats Sundin today or Wednesday to see whether he’s interested in playing for them and at what price. The Ducks are $900,000 below the salary cap and would have to make major moves to sign the 37-year-old.

“He’s intrigued. They’re a good hockey team, and one of his criteria is that he wants to play for a good team,” said Sundin’s agent, J.P. Barry. “He hasn’t made any decisions at all yet.”

General Manager Brian Burke declined to comment. As for the Kings, they will start Erik Ersberg in goal, his first start of the season. He has played two games in relief of Jason LaBarbera, giving up two goals on 14 shots. “It’s a good opportunity for him, a home game against one of the premier teams in the league,” Coach Terry Murray said. “His time is here and we’re looking forward to seeing something from him.”

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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.

Chris Foster

Chris Foster is a former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered UCLA football and basketball, USC basketball, the Kings and the Ducks. He grew up in San Clemente, arriving long before Richard Nixon came to town. As a teen, he surfed, played football and basketball, and fell in love with sports journalism. Foster died Dec. 13, 2023.

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