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[M T]

Long-time New York Rangers broadcaster Sal Messina and Los Angeles Times columnist Helene Elliott will have their plaques hang in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Messina will receive the 2005 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his work as an NHL broadcaster and that Elliott will receive the  2005 Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for distinguished hockey writing.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=125389&hubName=nhl

[DropThePuck]

Ms. Helene Elliott of our local L.A. Times?? Where it's impossible to find much hockey news at all? Ok, she did take us seriously and wrote some really nice stuff when we gave her the first scoop on our BTAF. I suppose that could make her worthy of a plaque in the HHOF.

At least it wasn't that "Idiot" Teaford guy nor Youngman.

[MrsBevo]

Just because she writes it doesn't mean they will find space for it and print it.

[M T]

LA Times Article

[Veca]

I think it's just...

[DropThePuck]

The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim would like to congratulate Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times on her achievement of being the recipient of the 2005 Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for distinguished hockey writing.

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[SacredCow]

I think that's very cool that a newspaper writer from SoCal, about as far from the HHOF as you can get in this country, is being honored like this. Good for her.

[DropThePuck]

Hockey to Induct Elliott Into Hall
In ceremony tonight, The Times sportswriter will be the first female journalist to receive the honor.

By Dennis D'Agostino, Special to The Times

Helene tends to downplay her role as one of the pioneer female journalists in American sports. But make no mistake, when she and her sisters were starting out in the late 1970s, many locker room doors and press boxes were still closed except by court order.

In a 1978 interview in People magazine (from which she was bumped from the cover in favor of Lenny and Squiggy), she said, "Women have enough constraints without being made to stand outside for two hours before we can see the players." But she added, "Imagine getting paid to do all the things my parents yelled at me not to do." So as far as her legacy as a trailblazer, let's just say that my wife has done a lot of things simply because people told her she couldn't. (I hope marrying me wasn't one of them.)

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[MrsBevo]

It was a nice article that her husband wrote in the Times yesterday.

[lvsprt]

It was a nice article that her husband wrote in the Times yesterday.

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Indeed a great article. I've always liked Helene Elliott, now I like her even more. Thanks for sharing.