Up next for Kings: Thursday vs. Vancouver

By Helene Elliott

Oct. 29, 2009 12 AM PT

VS. VANCOUVER

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Kings 8-4-1, Canucks 6-6-0.

Record vs. Canucks: 1-3 (2008-09).

Update: The Kings’ four-game winning streak ended Wednesday in their 2-1 shootout loss at San Jose, but they have earned points in five straight games. Anze Kopitar’s scoring streak ended at six games, but he still leads the NHL with 21 points. The Canucks absorbed a setback Wednesday when goaltender Roberto Luongo was found to have a fractured rib. He’s expected to be out for a week. Backup Andrew Raycroft is expected to start tonight. Center Ryan Johnson won’t play as a precaution after he fell and crashed headfirst into the boards and was briefly knocked out Tuesday.

-- 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.

Up next for Kings: Thursday vs. Vancouver

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