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Ducks send Long Beach’s Emerson Etem back to junior team

By Helene Elliott
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Emerson Etem of Long Beach, chosen 29th by the Ducks in the first round of the June entry draft, was returned to his junior team Thursday as part of the Ducks’ first round of cuts.

Here’s the full list:

Assigned to Syracuse (American Hockey League):

Nick Bonino – Center

Rob Bordson – Left wing

Mat Clark – Defenseman

Nicolas Deschamps – Left wing

Joe DiPenta – Defenseman

Brandon McMillan – Left wing/center

Mark Mitera – Defenseman

Kyle Palmieri – Right wing

Assigned to junior team:

Emerson Etem – Right wing (Medicine Hat/WHL)

Peter Holland – Center (Guelph/OHL)

Devante Smith-Pelly – Right wing (Mississauga/OHL)

Scott Valentine – Defenseman (Oshawa/OHL)

The cuts leave the Ducks with 37 players on their training camp roster, which breaks down to 21 forwards, 11 defensemen and five goaltenders.

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--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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