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The wait is over: Kings make the playoffs

By Helene Elliott
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The Kings will compete in the Stanley Cup playoffs this spring for the first time since 2002, clinching a berth Sunday when Calgary lost at Chicago, 4-1.

That defeat means the Flames could match the Kings’ 95 points but cannot equal the Kings’ 44 wins, and wins are the first tiebreaker when teams are tied after an equal number of games.

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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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