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Stadium:
Staples Center
Staples Center is a multipurpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles, California adjacent to the LA Live development. It is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex. Staples Center was financed privately at a cost of $375 million and is named for the Staples office-supply company, one of the center's corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights.

Seating Chart:
Staples Center Seating Chart

Team History:
Both the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Hockey League had several teams in California, and minor pro hockey found success there in the early 1960s. There was also a sizeable colony of Canadian expatriates. However, the lack of a suitable arena in the area was one of the primary factors in the National Hockey League's decision before the Sixties to not expand to Los Angeles, even though it was the third-largest city in the United States at the time. When the NHL decided to expand for 1967-68, amid rumblings that the Pacific Coast Hockey League was proposing to turn itself into a major league and compete for the Stanley Cup, Canadian entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke paid the NHL $2 million to form a new team in Los Angeles as one of the expansion teams to be added for the 1967-68 NHL season. On February 9, 1966, Cooke was awarded a new NHL franchise, behind his promise to build a new arena for his team. The terms of a new television agreement with CBS called for two of the new teams to be located in California, the other being the California Seals, who would represent the Bay Area. The Kings opened the 1967-68, their first season in the NHL, at the Long Beach Arena on October 14, 1967, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2. For the next two months, the Kings played their home games at Long Beach and at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

Season Preview:
Three years down the road, we may be talking Cinderella or dark horse or up-and-comer when we talk about the Los Angeles Kings, especially with Dean Lombardi's brilliant acquisition of potential blue stud Jack Johnson late in training camp from Carolina. Now, though, there's just the vague notion of a foundation amidst the rubble of a team that's missed the playoffs for three straight seasons and hasn't won a playoff round since 2001. Their best player, Pavol Demitra, was dealt for a prospect. They have no defined No. 1 goalie. They lack any kind of offensive depth. They are coming off a season in which their power play was ranked 29th and the penalty kill was ranked 30th. Hmmm. No wonder the L.A. Times stopped covering the team on the road.

Official Site:
http://kings.nhl.com/