Q1215892

North American professional ice hockey league

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The NHL (National Hockey League) is the top professional ice hockey league in North America, featuring teams from the United States and Canada competing at the highest level of the sport. It matters because it's the world's premier ice hockey competition, showcasing elite athleticism and serving as a major cultural and economic force in North American sports.

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Research organization · ROR

Type: Other
Founded: 1917
Location: New York, United States
Also known as: LNH
Status: Active

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ISNI 0000 0000 9926 4567

Wikidata facts

Official website: www.nhl.com

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number of participants: 32
Commons category: National Hockey League
inception: 1917-11-26
social media followers: 2550000
short name: LNH
native label: Ligue nationale de hockey
hashtag: nhl

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Encyclopedic overview

The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams, 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The league's headquarters have been in New York City since 1989, when it moved from Montreal; the league also has offices in Toronto and Montreal.

The NHL was organized at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on November 26, 1917, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 at Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL immediately took the NHA's place as one of the leagues that contested for the Stanley Cup in an annual interleague competition, before a series of league mergers and foldings left the NHL as the only league competing for the Stanley Cup in 1926.

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