Ducks play host to Kings in crucial game

By Helene Elliott

Feb. 18, 2009 12 AM PT

Time: 7.

On the air: TV: FS West. Radio: 830, 1150.

Site: Honda Center.

Records: Ducks 28-25-5, Kings 24-22-9.

Season series: Ducks, 3-2.

Update: Ten days ago, this game loomed as important for playoff positioning. Now, neither team is in the top eight in the West. Both are starting a tough stretch: This will be the Ducks’ final home game before a six-game trip, and the Kings will play seven of eight games on the road. Jonathan Quick, pulled early in the Kings’ 7-6 shootout loss to Atlanta on Monday, is set to start in goal. Ducks center Sammy Pahlsson (viral infection) underwent tests Tuesday but wasn’t cleared to play and won’t go on the upcoming trip.

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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.

Ducks play host to Kings in crucial game

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