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Local kid makes good: Mitch Wahl of Seal Beach gets hockey honor

By Helene Elliott
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Congratulations are in order for center Mitch Wahl of Seal Beach, who was voted to the junior-level Western Hockey League’s end-of-season first all-star team after a 30-goal, 96-point season for Spokane.

Wahl, who played in the California Wave hockey program and spent one year with the L.A. Junior Kings, was chosen by the Calgary Flames in the second round of last year’s NHL draft and recently signed an entry-level contract.

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He’s one of many kids from Southern California who are making an impact in the junior and college ranks, sort of a second-generation Wayne Gretzky effect. You’ll hear more from him in the future.

-- 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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