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Kings today

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Time: 1 p.m.

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

Where: Staples Center.

VS. PHOENIX

Records: Kings 25-23-9; Coyotes 26-28-5.

Record vs. Coyotes: 1-2.

Update: After getting a one-game break at San Jose on Thursday, Jonathan Quick is scheduled to start in goal for the Kings, his 13th start in 14 games. In February he’s 5-1-1 with a 2.35 goals-against average and .916 save percentage. The Kings are 0-2-1 in their last three home games and 1-5-1 in their last seven. Stats of the day: The Kings are 13-1-2 this season when Anze Kopitar scores a goal, and he has 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) in his last 14 games. The Coyotes are 2-9 since the All-Star break, including a six-game losing streak that has dropped them toward the bottom of the West playoff pack.

-- 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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