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All seems quiet in Kings’ pursuit of Kovalchuk

By Helene Elliott
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Nothing much seems to be happening today in the Kings’ negotiations with Ilya Kovalchuk -- or anyone else’s chase of the high-scoring left wing. The initial rush to sign free agents Thursday must have exhausted everyone involved, and combined with the holiday in both countries -- July 1 was Canada Day -- things are slow this weekend.

One item of local interest to report: Pasadena’s Brett Sterling, a former Hobey Baker award finalist while at Colorado College and draft pick of the Atlanta Thrashers, signed with Pittsburgh as a free agent.

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And capgeek.com, a very useful website for calculating salary cap space and the cap hit of players’ contracts, has an interesting piece on the teams that will play under a reduced cap next season as punishment for having paid out performance bonuses that pushed them past the cap ceiling last season.

-- 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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