Curse those NHL higher-ups. What are they doing, putting three teams in California, anyway?
Why couldn’t they have left well enough alone? Why wasn’t it OK to have a “Western trip” mean a train to Chicago and Detroit?
Hockey in California?
The fans walk to the arena in shorts and flip-flops, for goodness sakes. The seats are stained with sushi. There’s more dye in people’s hair than there is paint on the ice. The stadium is a place to go to cool off.
Hockey in California?
The NHL went westward ho in 1967. It put a team in Inglewood, in a place called the Fabulous Forum next to Los Angeles, and called it the Kings. They dressed the players in mustard uniforms with purple highlights. They were California, come to think of it, because the duds looked like a bad acid trip.
Down the line, it was pointed out by someone who knows about royalty that the crown logo on the front of the Kings sweaters was actually that of a queen.
That must have been the last straw, because the Kings shucked the mustard and purple and went to black and silver in 1988, altering the crown logo ...
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