NHL

NHL

By Helene Elliott

Oct. 10, 2009 12 AM PT

AT ST. LOUIS

When: 5 PDT.

Where: Scottrade Center.

On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 1150.

Records: Kings 2-1-0, Blues 2-1-0.

Record vs. Blues (2008-09): 3-1-0.

Update: The Kings begin a six-game trip, the longest of the season, after scoring six goals in each of their last two games, home wins against the Sharks and Wild. They last scored six goals in two straight games during the 1997-98 season. Ten players have accounted for the Kings’ 15 goals and 14 players have one point.The Blues opened the season in Sweden with two wins against the Red Wings, but defenseman Barret Jackman sprained his ankle in the team’s loss to Atlanta on Thursday and was put on injured reserve. Coach Andy Murray, the former Kings coach who guided the Blues into the playoffs last season, recently got a contract extension.

-- 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.

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