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What was Colorado Avalanche’s Joe Sakic thinking??

By Helene Elliott
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We admire and like Colorado Avalanche center Joe Sakic, a stand-up guy and clutch player through the years.

But we have to ask: Joe, since you were already out of the lineup because of a herniated disk in your back, what were you thinking when you tried to clear your driveway and broke three fingers during an unfortunate encounter with a snowblower?

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Sakic isn’t expected back before March.

-- 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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