Up next: Kings to play Ducks on Saturday

By Helene Elliott

April 8, 2011 12 AM PT

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Kings-Ducks tonight

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: FS West, Ch. 56; Radio: 1150, 710.

Records: Ducks 45-30-5, Kings 46-28-6 before Friday’s matchup.

Season series: Kings 2-1-1, Ducks 2-2 before Friday’s matchup.

Update:

This is the regular-season finale for both teams. Through Thursday, the Kings are 25-12-3 at home, including 10-3-2 in their last 15 home games. Their club record for home wins in a season is 26, set in 1990-91 and equaled in 2005-06. They have the NHL’s best penalty-killing success at home, having killed 88.6% of their disadvantages. The Ducks are 20-17-3 on the road, including one win and one loss at Staples Center. Corey Perry (50 goals) leads the race for the Rocket Richard trophy as the league’s top goal-scorer.

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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.

Up next: Kings to play Ducks on Saturday

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