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Ducks’ Corey Perry uses his head

By Helene Elliott
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Ducks winger Corey Perry found an unusual way to score the team’s final goal in a 6-1 rout of the Bruins Thursday at Boston.

Thanks for FS West and the NHL for this clip.

Perry wasn’t hurt -- and a team spokesman said Perry wasn’t sure exactly where the puck hit him. It was one of the headier plays of Perry’s career.

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-- 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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