LA Kings issue apology after giving away scarves made in Turkey on Armenian Night

The Los Angeles Kings hosted an Armenian Night past week, and it turned into a nationalist relations disaster.

The Los Angeles country is location to the largest Armenian assemblage extracurricular Armenia, truthful the squad paid homage to Armenians from the area.

Fans who attended a crippled Feb. 22 against the Utah Hockey Club received an Armenian scarf.

The scarves were made successful Turkey.

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Performers creation connected Armenian Heritage Night during the archetypal play betwixt the Utah Hockey Club and the Los Angeles Kings astatine Crypto.com Arena Feb. 22, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Juan Ocampo/NHLI via Getty Images)

The neighboring countries are historical enemies stemming from the deaths of an estimated 1.5 cardinal Armenians successful massacres, deportations and forced marches that began successful 1915 successful Ottoman Turkey. Historians wide presumption the lawsuit arsenic genocide, though Turkey rejects the notion.

After proceeding criticism, the Kings issued an apology.

The Los Angeles Kings logo during a crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Kings and the Dallas Stars astatine American Airlines Center successful Dallas, Texas, March 2, 2022. (Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports)

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"We, the LA Kings and our partners astatine Rank & Rally privation to sincerely apologize to each our friends successful the Armenian assemblage and beyond for the oversight that whitethorn person inadvertently impacted your acquisition during what should’ve been a joyous celebration," the Kings said successful a connection released Saturday. 

"We source, banal and merchantability merchandise from a prime database of manufacturers that are officially licensed by the league, and we were unaware of the item’s accumulation origin."

Crypto.com Arena Feb. 9, 2024, successful Los Angeles.   (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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The Kings are offering afloat refunds oregon exchanges successful idiosyncratic oregon by message to anyone who purchased the scarf astatine the TEAM LA store.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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