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Kings will have four players in world junior tournament

By Helene Elliott
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Viatcheslav Voynov, the Kings’ second-round pick and 32nd overall in last June’s entry draft, was chosen to play for Team Russia in the world junior hockey championship, Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Ottawa.

Defensemen Thomas Hickey (first round, fourth overall in 2007) and Colton Teubert (first round, 13th overall in 2008) were chosen to play for Canada. Center Oscar Moller, who unexpectedly made the Kings out of training camp, will be granted a leave to play for his native Sweden. He’s still around, though, and is scheduled to play against league-leading San Jose tonight at Staples Center.

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A team spokesman said Moller’s departure date is unsure, so it’s unclear whether Moller will stick around long enough for the Kings’ game against the New York Rangers on Wednesday, also at Staples Center.

-- Helene Elliott

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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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