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Don't let the desert temperatures fool you, Los Angeles is a great city for professional ice hockey, with two heavyweight NHL teams.

Sharing Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles with NBA basketball teams the Lakers and the Clippers, the Los Angeles Kings bring excitement to the winter season. Their illustrious history includes many years with hall-of-famer Wayne Gretzky, who helped put hockey on the map in California, where two more NHL franchises started up between 1988 and 1996.

One of these two new teams, the Anaheim Ducks, plays only 28 miles to the south. Known previously as the "Mighty Ducks" -- a name based on the Disney film of the same title--they are the winners of the 2006-2007 Stanley Cup.

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