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L.A. was in the pacific coast hockey league and their team was called the Los Angeles monarchs
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– L.A. was also in the western hockey league and their team was called the Los Angeles blades.
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he WHL teams thought that all of their teams would be turned into expansion teams for the NHL
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Jack Kent Cooke paid the NHL 2 million dollars to add L.A. to the expansion
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Cooke wasn’t allowed to have the kings play at the Coliseum Commission because it was signed to the blades so he constructed his own arena for the 1967-68 season
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the kings played their first game against the flyers winning 4-2 at the long beach arena because theirs was not completed for the season
