Kings tonight

By Helene Elliott

Jan. 20, 2009 12 AM PT

AT MINNESOTA

Time: 5 PST.

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

Where: Xcel Energy Center.

Records: Kings 17-20-7, Wild 23-19-3.

Record vs. Wild: 1-0.

Update: Goaltender Jonathan Bernier, recalled from Manchester of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis after Erik Ersberg suffered a lower-body injury, practiced with the team Monday. A Kings spokesman said everyone skated but Ersberg, who has not been put on injured reserve. The Kings have lost four games in a row and five of their last six to slip behind the playoff pack. This game will be the Wild’s 349th consecutive home sellout -- every game since its debut in 2000 -- but fans are restless because the team is low scoring and struggling to make the playoffs.

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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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