Fans of the Los Angeles Kings can make their voices heard with cheers and chants at games at Crypto.com Arena. Whether it's yelling at the refs or supporting their own players, Kings hockey fans make up one of the most passionate big-market fan bases in the NHL.
Throughout the history of the Kings franchise, the fans in LA have found some creative ways to voice their support for their team and sometimes criticize the referees.
Tony Wolak of The Hockey Writers ranked the "15 Craziest Things Ever Thrown on the Ice" in a piece this week, detailing everything from scattering trading cards on the rink to a live octopus being smuggled into a Detroit Red Wings game back in the 1950s.
Wildest and creative things thrown onto the ice at Los Angeles Kings games
The Kings got two spots on this list, with the most recent occurring in the early 1990s when then LA head coach Tom Webster got mad enough at one of the referees that he decided to throw his own players' equipment on the ice in protest of a bad call.
Webster yelled at referee Kerry Frazier at a game in the 1990-91 regular season between the Kings and Calgary Flames. He got so angry that he threw sticks on the ice at the referee.
As a result, the Kings organization was fined $10,000 for Webster's actions and the LA head coach received a dozen-game suspension from the NHL brass.
It was ironically a win in that game for the Kings over the Flames that helped LA get a two-point edge over Calgary and ultimately win the Smythe Division title in the 1990-91 season.
But if you think that a coach hurling sticks at a referee from a bad call is crazy, one person at a Kings game in the late 1980s threw a live chicken on the ice in LA.
In a game between the Kings and Montreal Canadiens in March 1988 (in the 1987-88 season), one person in the crowd threw a live chicken with a purple napkin around its neck onto the ice at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, CA.
Looking back on the incident, it's pretty wild to see that the refs or players didn't stop play on the ice after the chicken was thrown onto the rink.
After the person who threw the live chicken on the ice at a Kings game in 1988 was arrested, police lieutenant Robert Westlake said "the chicken was a victim of foul play".
Later in that year, the Kings traded for Wayne Gretzky in the 1988 offseason from the Edmonton Oilers.