Ducks tonight

By Helene Elliott

Jan. 9, 2009 12 AM PT

VS. TAMPA BAY

Time: 7.

On the air: TV: Ch. 56; Radio: 830.

Where: Honda Center.

Records: Ducks 21-16-5, Lightning 11-19-10.

Record vs. Lightning: Last played in 2006-07.

Update: The Ducks begin a three-game homestand. They have won their last two home games after losing their previous three. Tonight’s game will be the finale of Corey Perry’s four-game suspension for an elbow to the head of Philadelphia’s Claude Giroux. The Lightning, which hasn’t played in Anaheim since Dec. 14, 2005, will be concluding a back-to-back sequence after playing Thursday night in Phoenix. Entering that game, the team was 6-11-6 under Rick Tocchet, who replaced Barry Melrose as coach in mid-November. Steven Stamkos, the top overall draft pick last June, had four goals and 14 points before Thursday’s game, barely enough to put him in the top 20 rookie scorers. He also had a minus-11 plus/minus rating.

-- Helene Elliott

Hockey

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 tonight

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