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By HELENE ELLIOTT

Knowing that defenseman Donald Dufresne needed to play at least one game in the finals to get his name on the Stanley Cup, Canadien Coach Jacques Demers inserted Dufresne into Wednesday’s lineup and took out Kevin Haller. “My biggest worry was that I didn’t want the Kings to get the impression that we thought we had won the series and so were making changes,” he said.

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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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