Up next for Kings: Sunday at Chicago

By Helene Elliott

Dec. 18, 2010 12 AM PT

Kings tonight
AT CHICAGO

When: 4 p.m. PST.

Where: United Center.

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

Records: Kings 18-11-1, Blackhawks 17-14-3.

Record vs. Blackhawks: 0-2.

Update: The Kings haven’t won in Chicago since Dec. 30, 2007, including a 3-1 loss Oct. 27. Forward Brad Richardson, out since he suffered an upper-body injury Dec. 15, was expected to meet the team in Chicago and might play. However, the Kings will be without defensemen Matt Greene (upper-body injury) and Willie Mitchell (lower-body injury). The Blackhawks are expected to be without wingers Patrick Kane (left ankle), Marian Hossa (lower-body injury) and Viktor Stalberg (shaken by hard hit). The Blackhawks had lost three straight games before they defeated the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.

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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.

Up next for Kings: Sunday at Chicago

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