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Kings closing in on deal for Marco Sturm

By Helene Elliott
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Desperate for offense, the Kings have closed in on a trade for Boston left wing Marco Sturm, who has yet to play this season after undergoing knee surgery during the offseason. The cost will be a draft pick that would be conditional on how well Sturm performs or meets certain standards.

Sturm, who is in the final year of a four-year, $14-million contract, agreed to waive his no-trade clause, according to Bob McKenzie of TSN. However, it’s likely the Kings will want Sturm to pass a physical before the deal is completed, because of his knee problems.

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He tore ligaments in his left knee in the 2008-09 season and injured his right knee during the second round of the playoffs last spring.

The German-born winger began his career with San Jose and was drafted by then-General Manager Dean Lombardi, who is now the Kings’ general manager. He has yet to play this season but resumed practicing this week.

We’ll have more as this develops.

-- 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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