<Tr> <Th> Division championships </Th> <Td> 1 (1990--91) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> nhl.com/kings </Td> </Tr> <P> The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles . They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). 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 thirty - two years, until they moved to the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles at the start of the 1999--2000 season . </P> <P> 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 . Their highlights in those years included the strong goaltending of Rogie Vachon, and the "Triple Crown Line" of Charlie Simmer, Dave Taylor and Hall of Fame player Marcel Dionne, who had a famous upset of the uprising Edmonton Oilers in a 1982 playoff game known as the Miracle on Manchester . In 1988, the Kings traded with the Oilers to get their captain Wayne Gretzky, leading to a successful phase of the franchise that raised hockey's popularity in Los Angeles, and helped raise the sport's profile in the "Sun Belt" region . Gretzky, fellow Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille and defenseman Rob Blake led the Kings to the franchise's sole division title in 1990--91, and the Kings' first Stanley Cup Final appearance in 1993 . </P>

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