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Ducks get defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky for defenseman Ryan Whitney

By Helene Elliott
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In one of the last but not the least important trades made before Wednesday’s noon Pacific time NHL trade deadline, the Ducks acquired puck-moving defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky from the Edmonton Oilers for defense-challenged Ryan Whitney.

Both were Olympians, Visnovsky for fourth-place Slovakia and Whitney for the runner-up U.S. team.

Visnovsky, a former King, is signed through the 2012-13 season at $5.6 million, so the Ducks are taking on salary by trading Whitney, whose cap hit was $4 million per season through 2012-13. But the Ducks, still within short reach of a playoff spot, believed they’d be better off with Visnovsky -- and they’re probably right.

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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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