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Selanne to return to Ducks

By Helene Elliott
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Right wing Teemu Selanne will return to the Ducks next season, the club confirmed, ending speculation about whether he might retire.

Selanne, who will be 39 next week, is under contract with a salary cap hit of $2.625 million. However, he indicated at the end of the season he wasn’t sure if he’d finish out his his contract and that his decision would depend on whether Scott Niedermayer would play another season. Niedermayer said Friday he intends to re-sign with the Ducks.

Selanne was also said to be encouraged by the Ducks’ acquisition of winger Joffrey Lupul, who is expected to add the secondary scoring the Ducks lacked last season.

More later on Selanne and the second through seventh rounds of the NHL entry draft 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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