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GAME OF THE WEEK

By Helene Elliott

VANCOUVER AT DETROIT, THURSDAY

Two early division leaders, Vancouver in the Northwest and Detroit in the Central, and two of the league’s best. The Canucks toyed with Calgary and Edmonton, and the Red Wings were tested by the Kings (a victory with 1.7 seconds left) and Ottawa (a 3-2 overtime victory). Both can open it up and play a skating game, but the Red Wings are probably better defensively. Each has a likely Norris Trophy candidate, Detroit in Nicklas Lidstrom and Vancouver in Ed Jovanovski. Detroit’s Steve Yzerman and Vancouver’s Trevor Linden are veterans who have major influence on the ice and in the locker room.

-- 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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