The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles. They compete in the National Hockey League as a member of the West Division. The team was founded on June 5, 1967, after Jack Kent Cooke was awarded an NHL expansion franchise for Los Angeles on February 9, 1966, becoming one of the six teams that began play as part of the 1967 NHL expansion. The Kings played their home games at The Forum in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, for 32 years, until they moved to the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles at the start of the 1999–2000 season. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the Kings had many years marked by impressive play in the regular season only to be washed out by early playoff exits.
Sobre Los Angeles Kings
NHL franchise that emerged during a Stanley Cup Championship run in 2012. The team won its second Stanley Cup in 2014.
Conquista de Los Angeles Kings
The team acquired the legendary Wayne Gretzky in a 1988 trade and Gretzky helped lead the team to its first Stanley Cup Finals in 1993, where they were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens.
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Los Angeles Kings Category.. 1967 NHL expansion - The National Hockey League undertook a major expansion for the 1967–68 season. Six new franchises were added to double the size of the league to 12 teams, making this expansion the largest ever undertaken at one time by an established major sports league.. Staples Center - Staples Center is a multi-purpose arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. The arena opened on October 17, 1999.. Pacific Division (NHL).. National Hockey League teams.
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