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Up next for the Kings: Thursday vs. St. Louis

By Helene Elliott
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KINGS TONIGHT

vs. ST. LOUIS

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Kings 23-18-1, Blues 20-15-6 going into Wednesday.

Record vs. Blues: 0-1-0.

Update: Goaltender Jonathan Quick will start for the Kings, who are 1-5 on this eight-game homestand and 1-6 overall since Dec. 29. Their worst slump this season was a 1-7 stretch in November. Coach Terry Murray mixed his lines again and reunited Ryan Smyth, Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams, a potent combination last season. Murray said Trevor Lewis and Kevin Westgate will play on the fourth line but that he had not decided on their left wing. His options are Brad Richardson or Alexei Ponikarovsky. The other lines in Wednesday’s practice were Marco Sturm-Jarret Stoll-Wayne Simmonds, and Kyle Clifford- Michal Handzus-Dustin Brown. Defenseman Davis Drewiske needed several stitches to close a cut on his forehead after he was stuck by a puck during practice. He was not scheduled to play Thursday.

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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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