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World Junior Hockey Championship, second period

By Helene Elliott
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Canada goes up, 2-0, thanks to Angelo Esposito, a first-round pick whose rights were traded by Pittsburgh to Atlanta. Nice work along the boards, though helped by a Swedish player’s broken stick.

Good pace and good hitting, and the crowd’s energy is apparent during the TSN telecast of the World Junior Hockey Championship.

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An I-feel-old moment: Swedish defenseman Tim Erixon is the son of Jan Erixon, an outstanding NHL defensive forward who played for the New York Rangers when I covered them for Newsday years ago.

-- 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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