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The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They're part of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team was founded on February 9, 1966, after Jack Kent Cooke received an NHL expansion franchise for Los Angeles, becoming one of six teams that began playing as part of the 1967 NHL expansion. For thirty-two years, the Kings called The Forum in Inglewood, California a suburb just outside of Los Angeles home before moving to the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles at the start of the 1999-2000 season.