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Kings sign Matt Greene to 5-year extension

By Helene Elliott
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The Kings seem serious about this long-term signing stuff.

On Friday they signed defenseman Matt Greene to a five-year extension, through the 2013-14 season, adding him to a list of players who committed to wearing the purple, silver, black and white for a while.

That list already had Anze Kopitar (seven-year extension), Dustin Brown (six-year extension), Jarret Stoll (four-year deal) and Patrick O’Sullivan (three-year deal).

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The Kings acquired Greene and Stoll from Edmonton in the Lubomir Visnovsky trade. Greene, 25, was appointed one of the team’s alternate captains before the season began.

The Kings also announced they had reached agreement with defenseman Andrew Campbell on a three-year entry-level contract.

Campbell, a third-round pick and 74th overall in the June draft, is playing for the Kings’ American Hockey League farm team in Manchester, N.H. Busy day even before tonight’s game against Carolina at Staples Center.

-- 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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