Los Angeles Kings

The Los Angeles Kings are an NHL team based in Los Angeles, USA. Founded in 1967, the team competes in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the NHL. The Kings play their home games at the Crypto.com Arena and have won two Stanley Cups in franchise history.

Marty McSorley: Where is he now?

Marty McSorley protected Wayne Gretzky in Edmonton, won the Stanley Cup in 1987 and 1988, and went to Los Angeles with him in the 1988 trade. An undrafted defenseman who could also play forward, he ...

A Sharks forward has accused the Kings of disrespect

This is harsh

Los Angeles Kings History

The NHL expanded for the 1967-68 season in an attempt to outcompete the WHA. Los Angeles was awarded a franchise in 1966, and a year later, they began playing in the NHL at the Forum in Inglewood. In 1988, the Kings acquired Wayne Gretzk y from the Edmonton Oilers in one of the biggest trades in league history.

Anze Kopitar retired after the 2025-26 season and his No. 11 will be retired in February 2027. Peter Laviolette was hired as head coach in June 2026 after a fifth straight first-round exit.

What it costs to follow a full season: how to watch the Los Angeles Kings.

LA Kings Best Players

The Kings have had seven numbers retired:

4: Rob Blake
16: Marcel Dionne
18: Dave Taylor
20: Luc Robitaille
23: Dustin Brown
30: Rogie Vachon

99: Wayne Gretzky

Arena	Crypto.com Arena, 18,230
Conference	Western, Pacific Division
Stanley Cups	2 — 2012 and 2014
2025-26	35-27-20; swept by Colorado in round one
Head coach	Peter Laviolette, from June 2026
Captain	Vacant after Kopitar’s retirement
General manager	Ken Holland

Dustin Penner, former forward with the Edmonton Oilers

Dustin Penner: Where is he now?

Dustin Penner won the Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007 and with Los Angeles in 2012, scored an overtime goal that sent the Kings to the Final and was at the center of the most ...

Jason Allison, former captain of the Boston Bruins

What happened to Jason Allison

Jason Allison was one of the NHL’s most productive centers at the turn of the century, and in 2000-01 he scored 95 points as the Boston Bruins’ captain. Injuries brought his career to an early ...

Gretzky vs Gordie Howe: they faced each other four times, at 18 and 51

Wayne Gretzky scored 2,857 points in 1,487 NHL games. Gordie Howe scored 1,850 in 1,767. Gretzky scored 1.921 points per game and Howe scored 1.047, which makes Gretzky’s rate 1.84 times his. The rate hides ...

Wayne Gretzky had an office and nobody else went in

'He probably thought I was an idiot”

Ziggy Palffy: Where is he now?

Ziggy Palffy scored 40 or more goals in three straight seasons for the New York Islanders and averaged more than a point per game over 684 NHL games. In January 2006, halfway through his only ...

What happened to Jimmy Carson

Jimmy Carson scored 55 goals for the Los Angeles Kings at 19 and was the young star the Kings sent to Edmonton to get Wayne Gretzky. He played his last NHL game at 27. His ...

One word set Nathan MacKinnon off against the Kings

Reveals what angered him

Ken Baumgartner: where is he now

Ken Baumgartner spent 12 NHL seasons as one of the league’s most feared enforcers and piled up 2,242 penalty minutes for five teams. He was studying on road trips long before he retired, and his ...