Ducks' Scott Niedermayer to be Captain Canada, Kings' Drew Doughty makes team

Ducks’ Scott Niedermayer to be Captain Canada, Kings’ Drew Doughty makes team

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Dec. 30, 2009 9:37 AM PT

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Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer was named captain of the Canadian Olympic team for the Vancouver Games, and Kings defenseman Drew Doughty will be among the players he leads.

Doughty, 20, will be the youngest defenseman on the roster.

There were a few mild surprises: Calgary’s Dion Phaneuf and Jay Bouwmeester were not selected.

The other defensemen are: San Jose’s Dan Boyle, Chicago’s Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook, Nashville’s Shea Weber and former Duck Chris Pronger, now with Philadelphia.

We’ll have more later when the Kings get to the Pengrowth Saddledome for their morning skate. Check back at www.latimes.com/sports

-- Helene Elliott in Calgary, Canada

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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.