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Up next for the Kings: Thursday vs. Phoenix

By Helene Elliott

Kings tonight

VS. PHOENIX

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Kings 24-21-1, Coyotes 23-15-9.

Record vs. Coyotes: 0-2.

Update: Right wing Wayne Simmonds, who missed the last two games because of an apparent ankle injury, practiced Wednesday and it is possible he will play Thursday. Left wing Ryan Smyth left practice early after being struck on the left calf by a puck, but that’s not expected to keep him out of the game. Coach Terry Murray reconfigured his lines again, putting Alexei Ponikarovsky, Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown together and placing Marco Sturm alongside Michal Handzus and Trevor Lewis. Murray said he will leave the line of Smyth, Jarret Stoll and Justin Williams intact. The Coyotes lost their last two games but were 6-0-2 before that.

— 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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