Brown Sidelined Again Because of His Ankle

By Mike Bresnahan and Helene Elliott

Feb. 10, 2004 12 AM PT

Times Staff Writers

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Rookie forward Dustin Brown already has paid a stiff price because of an ankle injury. It apparently will cost him more.

Brown, who sat out 26 consecutive games because of a severely sprained left ankle, returned two weeks ago but fell back onto the injured reserve list Monday.

Brown re-injured the ankle last Tuesday during a pre-game practice in Calgary. Brown and defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky, out because of a shoulder injury, did not make the five-game trip that starts tonight against the Minnesota Wild.

Brown initially hurt his ankle Nov. 29 against the Chicago Blackhawks and returned Jan. 24 against the Mighty Ducks. He played in two games after that.

Brown “hasn’t improved the last four days,” King Coach Andy Murray said, though “they don’t think it’s as bad as it originally was.”

Forward John Tripp and defensemen Tim Gleason and Tomas Zizka were recalled from Manchester (N.H.) to help fill the open rosters spots.

Visnovsky is out until at least next week because of nerve damage in his right shoulder incurred after getting checked headfirst into the boards Jan. 31 against the Edmonton Oilers.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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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