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Lineup change planned for Kings

By Helene Elliott
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Brad Richardson will be in and Brian Boyle will be out when the Kings face the Colorado Avalanche on Monday night at Staples Center.

Boyle is scoreless with a minus-4 plus/minus rating in three games, while Richardson played in one game and had zeroes across the board.

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Richardson, acquired by the Kings from Colorado for a second-round draft pick, will center the fourth line for Raitis Ivanans and Derek Armstrong.

‘He’s been out for a while. It’s his old team. Maybe that adds a little bit to it,’ Coach Terry Murray said after the Kings practiced Sunday at El Segundo. ‘Also, I need a little bit better play from other people in a couple situations in that role. So there’s a change for that reason also.’

Read more about the Kings’ strategy against the Avalanche in the Kings FYI notebook.

-- 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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