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Ducks re-sign Saku Koivu for $5 million over two years

By Helene Elliott
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Center Saku Koivu has agreed to return to the Ducks for two years and $5 million. Can Teemu Selanne be far behind?

We’ll try and get an answer to that question a little later, when General Manager Bob Murray speaks to reporters on a conference call, but this much we know: Koivu is in the fold.

The 35-year-old Finn, who left Montreal to sign a one-year deal with the Ducks last summer, had 19 goals and 52 points in 71 games last season and had a team-leading plus-14 rating. He also won a bronze medal with Finland’s Olympic team, his fourth Olympic medal. He had two other bronze medals and a silver medal.

The Ducks’ other free-agent addition Thursday was another Finn, defenseman Toni Lydman ... but there’s room for Selanne, too.

More later at www.latimes.com/sports

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-- Helene Elliott

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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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