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It's been quite a past few months for Kevin Allen.
The veteran USAToday hockey writer, who is from and continues to live in the metro Detroit area, will receive the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for excellence in hockey journalism after getting the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States in December.
"I don't know if it is possible for me to have a better season than I'vehadin 2013-14," Allen wrote in an e-mail. "To win the Lester Patrick Award and then be honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame in the same season is pretty humbling." Allen, who is from Wayne and...