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Tomas Vokoun suffers bizarre injury in Panthers game

By Helene Elliott
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Goaltending in the NHL is hazardous enough without having to worry about your own teammates hurting you.

But Florida Panthers goalie Tomas Vokoun on Monday suffered a lacerated ear after being hit in the left side of the head by the stick of a frustrated teammate during the team’s game against the Atlanta Thrashers.

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According to the Panthers’ web site, Vokoun was taken to a hospital in Atlanta for treatment.

-- 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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