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Kings’ Wayne Simmonds to be out ‘for a while’ because of lower-body injury

By Helene Elliott
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Right wing Wayne Simmonds, who has been one of the Kings’ most consistently effective players all over the ice, will be out ‘for a while’ because of an injury that Coach Terry Murray said could not be traced to one play or specific moment.

Here’s what Murray had to say this morning.

It’s a tough loss, but the Kings have managed to withstand the absence of winger Ryan Smyth since Nov. 16. It’s looking more and more like Smyth might return during the Kings’ trip next week to Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.

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Simmonds is due to see a team doctor tonight, and his teammates are preparing to face the Dallas Stars at Staples Center. The second-year forward has nine goals and 20 points in 33 games, lately playing alongside Michal Handzus and Scott Parse.

Peter Harrold will return to the lineup on the wing, and Davis Drewiske, a seventh defenseman during the Kings’ 3-2 shootout victory over Phoenix on Thursday, will be scratched from the lineup.

More later at www.latimes.com/sports.

-- 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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