Erik Ersberg to start in goal again for Kings

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Nov. 5, 2008 3:20 PM PT

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Goaltender Erik Ersberg, whose first start this season was an outstanding performance in the Kings’ 1-0 overtime loss to the Ducks on Tuesday, will start again Thursday night when the Kings face the Florida Panthers at Staples Center.

Ersberg stopped 26 shots in Tuesday’s game, allowing only a screen shot by Chris Pronger four seconds after a Ducks power play had expired.

He had been Jason LaBarbera’s backup in the Kings’ first 10 games.

More later on latimes.com.

-- 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.