KINGS TONIGHT

By Helene Elliott

Oct. 15, 2009 12 AM PT

AT DETROIT

When: 4:30 PDT.

Where: Joe Louis Arena.

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

Records: Kings 4-2-0; Red Wings 2-3-0.

Record vs. Red Wings (2008-09): 0-3-1.

Update: Jonathan Quick is expected to start in goal after resting Wednesday while Erik Ersberg allowed four goals on 21 shots in the Kings’ 4-2 loss to the New York Rangers. With a goal against the Rangers, Ryan Smyth is the only King who has recorded at least one point in every game this season (five goals, nine points). The defending West champion Red Wings are expected to make some lineup changes after a 6-2 loss to Buffalo on Tuesday, bringing back grinding forwards Kirk Maltby and Kris Draper and defenseman Brett Lebda. Center Pavel Datsyuk, among the NHL’s scoring leaders last season, is questionable because of an upper-body injury.

-- 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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