Kings at Crypto.com Arena: What time do doors open?
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here.
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here.
Your leave-by time is the first travel row. Ready Time can alert you when it comes up. Put in your puck drop time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.
NHL game night at Crypto.com Arena, home of the Los Angeles Kings. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.
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Start times here are the team's own. The NHL sells no national window, so a game goes on when the building and the market suit and there is nothing to convert from Eastern. These are the slots this team plays most often.
These are Crypto.com Arena’s own times. The team publishes start times with the schedule in the summer and the same opponent can be a one o’clock one week and a seven o’clock the next, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.
Holiday games, a nationally televised night and the playoffs run their own times, and a handful each season start half an hour or an hour either side of the usual slot. Type those in on the puck drop row.
The arena is at 1111 South Figueroa, off the 110 at the 9th and Olympic exit or the I-10 at Figueroa, and a seven o’clock puck drop means the last few blocks are downtown at going-home time.
The Metro A and E Lines stop at Pico, which the arena puts at a block west and two blocks north on foot, the J Line bus stops at Figueroa and Pico, and Metrolink connects at Union Station. Rideshare surges on the way out the way it does anywhere downtown, and walking a couple of blocks toward the Convention Center before requesting cuts the wait.
The arena owns its parking, about 3,300 spaces across seven lots and garages in the L.A. Live complex. The West Garage on Chick Hearn Court has several ways in and the East Garage on West Olympic is the alternative, and both are open from six in the morning until two the next, so there is no waiting for a gate to lift.
The smaller lots follow the event instead: Lots 1 and C open two and a half hours out and the rest open ninety minutes out, which is the same moment the doors do. Parking is sold ahead through AXS alongside the ticket, and rideshare drops in the white zone on Chick Hearn Court between L.A. Live Way and Georgia.
Bag rules are the arena's own here and they run from a wallet-sized clutch to a bag that fits under your seat. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line.
Check current sizes and door times on the Kings’ own game day guide before you go.
Doors open ninety minutes before the puck drops, which the Kings state on their own game day page, and their own advice is to be in a seat early enough to watch the warmup. Screening is the Evolv system rather than a traditional magnetometer, so you keep your phone, keys and wallet and walk through at a normal pace unless something flags.
The bag policy is one of the strictest anywhere: no bags, backpacks, totes, clear bags or fanny packs, and the only thing that goes through is a clutch or wallet under 5 by 9 by 1 inches. Medical and parental bags up to 14 by 14 by 6 are x-rayed. There are Binbox lockers outside the Kobe Bryant Entrance, and re-entry means a ticket scan on the way out and screening again on the way back.
Crypto.com Arena was previously called Staples Center, so older directions and tickets may still use that name.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before puck drop covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.
Work backward from puck drop: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (25 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 5:49 PM for a 7:00 PM puck drop. Change the puck drop time and every row moves.
It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a weekend matinee drops the puck at 1:00 PM, an early-evening game at 6:00 PM, a night game at 7:00 PM. This example uses the night game window. Holiday games, nationally televised nights and playoff rounds run their own times; the puck drop row is editable for those.
The plan allows 10 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before puck drop. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.
About 90 minutes before puck drop here. Check the Kings’ own game day guide for your game.
Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.
Assume the limit is small. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.
Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.
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