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Kings, Ducks represented on Team USA for world junior hockey championships

By Helene Elliott
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Derek Forbort, the Kings’ first-round draft pick in June, and Ducks prospects Emerson Etem of Long Beach and Kyle Palmieri were chosen for Team USA’s roster for the world junior hockey championships, which start Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y.

The U.S. upset Canada to win the last tournament, leaving Canadian hockey fans fretting. It’s a huge deal, especially in Canada, and has been a proving ground for many prominent NHL players.

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Team USA’s games will be shown on the NHL Network, giving fans a chance to watch future NHL stars.

Here’s the entire roster.

Incidentally, Kings prospect Brayden Schenn scored a beautiful goal for Canada against Sweden in an exhibition Tuesday.

-- 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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