Giguere pays a price when he's at home

By Helene Elliott

Oct. 26, 2008 12 AM PT

FROM "THE FABULOUS FORUM" —

Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, a native of Montreal, had so many ticket requests for the team’s game against the Canadiens at the Bell Centre that he rented a suite for the night to accommodate about 20 friends and relatives. That group includes 11 nieces and nephews. Alex Gilchrist, the Ducks’ media relations director, was impressed. “Let’s just say it wasn’t cheap,” Gilchrist said in an e-mail.

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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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