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www .nhl .com. The National Hockey League ( NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, [ 5] is awarded annually to the league ...
The United States men's national ice hockey team[ 2] is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with its U18 and U17 development program in Plymouth, Michigan. The team is controlled by USA Hockey, the governing body for organized ice hockey in the United States. The U.S. team is currently ranked 6th in the IIHF World Rankings.
The American Hockey League(AHL) is a professional ice hockeyleague based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental leaguefor the National Hockey League(NHL).[2] As of the 2024–25 AHL season, All 32 NHL teams held affiliations with an AHL team. Historically, when an NHL team does not have an AHL affiliate, its ...
The United States of America's men's, women's, and men's under-20 teams compete annually in the Ice Hockey World Championships, IIHF World Women's Championships, and the IIHF World Junior Championship. The men's and women's senior teams also compete quadrennially in the Olympic Games, starting from 1920 and 1998, respectively.
The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. Inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was first awarded to Canada's amateur ice hockey ...
The NHL is the major professional hockey league in North America, with 25 US-based teams and 7 Canadian-based teams competing for the Stanley Cup. [21] While NHL stars are still not as readily familiar to the general American public as are stars of the NFL, MLB, and the NBA, average attendance for NHL games in the US has surpassed average NBA attendance in recent seasons, [22] [23] buoyed in ...
National Women's Hockey League (1999-2007) Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League (1974–2016) – became Bloomfield Division of the PJHL; North American 3 Eastern Hockey League (2012–2016; formerly the Northern States Hockey League, 2012–2014) - merged with North American 3 Hockey League; North American Hockey League (1973–1977)
IIHF World Ranking. The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the performance of the national ice hockey teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It is based on a formula giving points for each team's placings at IIHF-sanctioned tournaments over the previous four years. The ranking is used to determine seedings ...