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By Helene Elliott
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The Kings are playing their final home game of the season today against the Oilers at Staples Center, and in keeping with tradition the team announced its annual award winners.

First, as voted by the media:

Most Valuable Player (the Bill Libby award): Anze Kopitar.

Best Newcomer (Mark Bavis award): Ryan Smyth

Outstanding defenseman: Drew Doughty.

Best defensive player: Michal Handzus.


 As voted by the players:

Most Inspirational player (Ace Bailey memorial award): Matt Greene.

Unsung Hero: Michal Handzus.


 As selected by the Kings Care Foundation:

Community service: Dustin Brown.


 As selected by the Kings booster club:

Most Popular player: Dustin Brown.

Leading scorer: Anze Kopitar.

More later on the Kings-Oilers game at www.latimes.com/sports

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-- 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.

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