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Kings’ practice: Michal Handzus gets a day off

By Helene Elliott
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There wasn’t much news out of the Kings’ practice Wednesday following their 3-1 victory over Atlanta Tuesday in their home opener.

A team spokesman said that center Michal Handzus did not skate and instead got a ‘maintenance day,’ which usually means a player has some kind of bump or bruise or soreness and gets treatment instead of practicing. Trevor Lewis, scratched from the lineup the first three games, took Handzus’ place between Alexei Ponikarovsky and Wayne Simmonds.

No changes appear imminent on defense.

The Kings next face the Canucks on Friday at Staples Center. The Kings beat the Canucks, 2-1, in a shootout last Saturday at Vancouver.

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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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