267136 Articles by Helene Elliott

2797 articles since 1997

Kings get loss but some hope

Sports | By Helene Elliott | 12:00AM, November 5
So that’s what happens when a Kings goaltender smothers shots and doesn’t leave rebounds that slither under his arm or slip between his pads and saddle his team with deficits it can’t make up. Read more
 

Ducks officials to talk to free agent Mats Sundin

Sports | By Chris Foster and Helene Elliott | November 4, 2008
Ducks executives are scheduled to talk to free-agent center Mats Sundin today or Wednesday to see whether he’s interested in playing for them and at what price. Read more
 

Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf gets an ‘A’ in toughness

Sports | By Helene Elliott | November 4, 2008
The gap on the top-left side of his mouth where two teeth used to shine attests to Ryan Getzlaf’s toughness. Read more
 

Winning at their own game

Sports | By Helene Elliott | November 3, 2008
This was what the Ducks must be at their core if they’re going to win another Stanley Cup championship. Read more
 

Strange night ends badly for Ducks

Sports | By Helene Elliott | November 1, 2008
Put two of the NHL’s best goaltenders at opposite ends of the ice, playing for teams that last season were among the league’s best defensively, and what do you get? Read more
 

Brad May to sit out about two weeks for Ducks

Sports | By Helene Elliott | October 31, 2008
Ducks left wing Brad May has a sprained right knee and is expected to be out of the lineup about two weeks, the club announced Thursday after he underwent an MRI. May was injured Wednesday during the second period of the Ducks’ 5-4 overtime victory over the Red Wings. Read more
 

Ducks get top billing in drama

Sports | By Helene Elliott | October 30, 2008
When the last two Stanley Cup champions faced each other Wednesday at the Honda Center, playing beneath the banner that celebrates the Ducks’ 2007 title but amid hundreds of exuberant expatriate Detroit Red Wings fans, they produced a glimpse of playoff hockey on a day warm enough to think June had actually arrived. Read more
 

Kings put up a good fight in loss to the Red Wings

Sports | By Helene Elliott | October 28, 2008
If the Detroit Red Wings thought they would repeat as champions on their skills alone, if they thought adding prize free agent Marian Hossa would cure the Stanley Cup hangover that sabotaged every would-be repeat winner since 1998, the Kings reminded them Monday that it won’t come easily. Read more
 

For Asian women, it’s victory on ice

Sports | By Helene Elliott | October 27, 2008
Regal in red and gold, sure-footed as she skimmed over the ice at the Comcast Center, Yu-na Kim was a vivid example of the quietly powerful dominance Asian women are exerting in international figure skating. Read more
 

Japan’s Kozuka is a surprise winner

Sports | By Helene Elliott | October 26, 2008
Takahiko Kozuka of Japan was the surprise winner of the men’s title at Skate America, overcoming a fall on a quadruple toe loop Saturday to perform an accomplished routine to “Romeo and Juliet” that vaulted him past Americans Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. Read more
 
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