Ducks tonight

By Helene Elliott

March 11, 2009 12 AM PT

VS. VANCOUVER

Time: 7.

On the air: TV: Prime. Radio: 830.

Site: Honda Center.

Records: Ducks 31-30-6, Canucks 34-23-8.

Record vs. Canucks: 0-1-1.

Update: The Ducks, winless in their last three games and 1-3-1 in their last five, are three points out of the last West playoff spot but would have to pass four teams to get there. All of their last four games have been decided by one goal: they won the first one, lost the second in overtime and lost 3-2 decisions at home to Dallas and Minnesota. Defenseman Bret Hedican (back spasms) is not skating and won’t play tonight. The Canucks are coming off a 3-2 loss to the Kings on Monday. They had won their previous four games and they’re 12-3 since Feb. 3.

-- Helene Elliott

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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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