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Kings are feeling a draft of the NHL variety

By Helene Elliott
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The NHL will announce Friday that the Kings will host the 2010 NHL entry draft at Staples Center, June 25-26, a club spokesman confirmed.

The annual entry draft is one of the big dates on the NHL calendar. Besides being a showcase for young talent, it’s often an occasion for general managers to get together and pull off big trades, as the Ducks and Flyers did last June in sending Chris Pronger to Philadelphia.

The early favorites to be No. 1 overall next year, incidentally, are left wing Taylor Hall of the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League and center Tyler Seguin of the Plymouth Whalers of the OHL.

-- 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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