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The Los Angeles Kings professional ice hockey team are members of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Kings were founded on February 9, 1966, when Jack Kent Cooke was awarded an NHL expansion franchise in Los Angeles. The Kings shared their home The (Great Western) Forum in Inglewood, CA  "The House That Jack Built", with the NBAs Lakers for 32 years. 

 

In 1979 Dr. Jerry Buss purchased the Kings, Lakers  and The Forum.  In 1987, coin collector Bruce McNall purchased the Kings from Buss and a new era had begun for The Kings.  McNall changed the team colors to black and silver, and he turned the team into a Stanley Cup contender almost overnight on August 9, 1988, when he acquired the league's best player, Wayne Gretzky himself, in a blockbuster trade with the Oilers that rocked the hockey world and generated excitement about hockey and the NHL that had never been seen before in Southern California. As soon as Gretzky donned a Kings jersey, the Forum was sold out for every game - virtually overnight, a Kings game became the hottest ticket in town. The popularity of Gretzky and the Kings also led to the NHL awarding an expansion team to Anaheim, California in 1993. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (who became the Anaheim Ducks on June 22, 2006) would become the Kings nearest rival, just 35 miles to the south.

 

The Kings have not had a great deal of success in their history, winning their division just once in 1990–91 and failing to get out of the first round of the playoffs twelve times in the twenty-four seasons when they qualified for post-season play and advancing past the second round just once.  The high point in Kings franchise history was when they won their conference championship for the first and only time in their history, advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 1992–93 season, only to lose the series to the Montreal Canadiens in five games.

 

Phillip Anschutz and Edward Roski bought the Kings out of bankruptcy court in October 1995 and began a rebuilding phase.  General manager Sam McMaster was fired and was replaced by former Kings winger Dave Taylor, but the rebuilding phase for Taylor was a tough one, as the Kings continued to flounder, failing to make the playoffs until the 1997–98 season.

 

In 1999 The Kings and Lakers, joined by The Los Angeles Clippers, moved in to the new state-of-the-art Staples Center that was built by the teams owners.  With a new home, a new coach and a new lineup, the 1999-2000 Kings improved dramatically and advanced to the playoffs only to be eliminated in the first round.  The  following year  the Kings finished 3rd in the Pacific Division and again made it to the playoffs, this time being eliminated in the 2nd Round. 

 

The Kings have not revisited the playoffs since. They found themselves ravaged by a  NHL near record number of  man-games lost to injury in 2002-03 and to their despair easily surpassed that in 2003-04. The entire next season was lost to a NHL players strike.  The 2005-2006 season looked promising with the Kings challenging for the Western Conference Title.  However, the Kings once again stumbled badly, freefalling from second in the Western Conference in early January to tenth place.