LA Kings players aboard double-decker buses hoisted the Stanley Cup, shining bright on a sunny Southern California day, above their heads as they passed cheering fans on the route to Staples Center. Thousands of L.A. Kings fans celebrated the hockey team’s nail-biting victory for the Stanley Cup Championship for the second time in three seasons with a parade and rally downtown Monday.

Where: Downtown Los Angeles, California
When: Monday, June 16 at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET)

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The greatest hockey player of all-time celebrate 50th birthday. He played last game in NHL in 1999 and finished with more than 60 records in Profiliga. His successful career in Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, Saint Louis Blues and New York Rangers ended. “The Great One” played in 1487 games, he scored 894 goals and 1963 assists and he obtained 2857 points.

NUMBER: 99
HEIGHT: 6′ 0″
WEIGHT: 185
Shoots: Left
BIRTHDATE: Jan 26, 1961
BIRTHPLACE: Brantford, ON, Canada

The latest era in history of NHL is known as the “Modern Era”, which is from 1992 to the present. During this time, the 1990s to the 2000s, the NHL expanded to 30 teams. New teams were added in cities such as San Jose, Nashville, Phoenix, Tampa Bay, Ottawa, Florida, Anaheim, Atlanta, Columbus, Minnesota, Carolina, and Colorado. There was a first milestone in the history of NHL in 1993, when the NHL got their first commissioner in Gary Bettman. The league became more of a business in the 1990s with sponsorships, more advertisements, and lucrative TV contracts. Also with the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, more European players joined the NHL and took the league by storm and improved the competition dramatically. In the 1990s, players like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Steve Yzerman, Mark Messier, along with a combination of younger generation of players from North America and Europe such as Jaromir Jagr, Eric Lindros, Martin Brodeur, Peter Forsberg, Markus Naslund, Sergei Fedorov and Dominik Hasek help the league grow to the point where players were now making multi-million dollar salaries.

Steve Yzerman

Wayne Gretzky

Vincent Lecavalier

Markus Naslund

Jarome Iginla

Daniel Alfredsson

Brendan Shanahan

Brett Hull

Curtis Joseph

Chris Chelios

Niklas Lidstrom