[104] In the NHL, fighting leads to major penalties while IIHF rules, and most amateur rules, call for the ejection of fighting players. In this context, each team is a member of the league, and each member appoints a Governor (usually the owner of the club), and two alternates to the Board. Three players for each team in turn take a penalty shot. This, along with the transition to a national "Game of the Week" and an annual "Hockey Day in America" regional coverage, all televised on NBC, has helped increase the NHL's regular season television viewership in the United States. [10] The NHL draws many highly skilled players from all over the world and currently has players from approximately 20 countries. [57] A new collective bargaining agreement was eventually ratified in July 2005, including a salary cap. Launched in the 2014–15 season by 26 clubs, 6 leagues and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the tournament features top teams from the first-tier leagues of countries across Europe. The IIHF launched a tournament with the same name in 2008 to coincide with the IIHF's 100th … Further it noted that season-ticket sales were more prominent in the NHL than the other three because of the financial ability of the NHL fan to purchase them. They also lead all teams with 24 Stanley Cup championships (one as an NHA team, twenty-three as an NHL team). In a second vote, the plan was approved. The same can also be said for the other trophies reissued every year. [136][137][138][139][140][141], Quebecor Media holds national French-language rights to the NHL, with all coverage airing on its specialty channel TVA Sports. The EliteProspects Rinkside pre-U18 2021 NHL Draft Ranking, QMJHL Best Defensive Defenseman (Kevin Lowe Trophy), QMJHL Best Defensive Forward (Guy Carbonneau Trophy), QMJHL Best Professional Prospect (Mike Bossy Trophy), QMJHL Defenseman of the Year (Emile Bouchard Trophy), QMJHL Defensive Rookie of the Year (Raymond Lagacé Trophy), QMJHL Most Sportsmanlike Player (Frank J. Selke Trophy), QMJHL Most Valuable Player (Michel Brière Trophy), QMJHL Offensive Rookie of the Year (Michel Bergeron Trophy), QMJHL Personality of the Year (Paul Dumont Trophy), QMJHL Scholastic Player of the Year (Marcel Robert Trophy). Players are banned from gambling and criminal activities have led to the suspension of players. The league then increased to 18 teams by 1974 and 21 teams in 1979. The final remaining team is crowned the Stanley Cup champion. The league has not contracted any teams since the Cleveland Barons folded in 1978. 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But by the NHA's eighth season, a series of disputes with Toronto Blueshirts owner Eddie Livingstone led team owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, and Quebec Bulldogs to hold a meeting to discuss the league's future. Get access to our unique free agency lists and many more premium features. The league's American broadcast partners have been in flux for decades, ranging from such networks as CBS, SportsChannel America, the USA Network, Fox, ABC, and ESPN. International Ice Hockey Federation Teams of the Past Logos. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America,[6] is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. A trapezoidal area behind each goal net has been introduced. The agreement had a term of six years with an option of extending the collective bargaining agreement for an additional year at the end of the term, allowing the league to resume as of the 2005–06 season. NHL clubs have also participated in IIHF-organized club tournaments. World Championship. [26] The New York Rangers were added in 1926. More Football Teams Exit Super League. The NHL holds one of the most affluent fan bases. In 2007, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) formalized the "Triple Gold Club", the group of players and coaches who have won an Olympic gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup. [91] During playoff overtime periods, the only break is to clean the loose ice at the first stoppage after the period is halfway finished.[92]. The league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. National U.S. television rights are currently held by NBC Sports; its current 10-year, US$2 billion contract, which began in the 2011–12 season, extended and unified rights deals that were first established in the 2005–06 season, when Comcast acquired cable rights to replace ESPN, and NBC acquired broadcast television rights under a revenue-sharing agreement to replace ABC. [24], The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons and Boston Bruins in 1924. Seattle’s AHL affiliate in the Coachella Valley is expected to begin play for the 2022-23 season. Among its North American corporate sponsors, Kraft Heinz sponsors Kraft Hockeyville, an annual competition in which communities compete to demonstrate their commitment to the sport of ice hockey. NHL Centre Ice in Canada[147] and NHL Center Ice in the United States[148] offer access to out-of-market feeds of games through a cable or satellite television provider. As in Canada, games not broadcast nationally are aired regionally within a team's home market and are subject to blackout outside of them. Québec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) - Complete rosters, stats, standings, awards and facts from Eliteprospects.com. HOCKEY CANADA Players & Parents +-For Parents New to Hockey How to Join Girls & Women … [13] Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, and on November 26, 1917, formed the National Hockey League. The first was a strike by the National Hockey League Players' Association in April 1992 which lasted for ten days, but the strike was settled quickly and all affected games were rescheduled. [83][84] At least seven NHL clubs operate at a loss. [52] On July 21, 2015, the NHL confirmed that it had received applications from prospective ownership groups in Quebec City and Las Vegas for possible expansion teams,[53] and on June 22, 2016, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the addition of a 31st franchise, based in Las Vegas and later named the Vegas Golden Knights, into the NHL for the 2017–18 season. Between 1976 and 1991, the NHL, and the Soviet Championship League would hold a number of exhibition games between the two leagues known as the Super Series. [111] The 1977 edition of the Montreal Canadiens, the second of four straight Stanley Cup champions, was named by ESPN as the second greatest sports team of all-time.[112]. The same trophy is reused every year for each of its awards. [69], To aid with removing high-speed collisions on icing, which had led to several potential career-ending injuries such as Hurricanes' defenceman Joni Pitkanen, the league mandated hybrid no-touch icing for the 2013–14 NHL season. [18], The NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition at the time. For those teams that did qualify for the playoffs, the draft order is then determined by total regular season points for non-division winners that are eliminated in the first two rounds of the playoffs, then any division winners that failed to reach the Conference Finals. [68] In December 2009, Brendan Shanahan was hired to replace Colin Campbell and given the role of senior vice-president of player safety. [61] All games were cancelled up to January 14, 2013, as well as the 2013 NHL Winter Classic and the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend. [56] The resulting collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was set for renegotiation in 1998 and extended to September 15, 2004. [29], The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, whose career ended on a vicious hit by Eddie Shore. At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points in each division is crowned the division champion, and the league's overall leader is awarded the Presidents' Trophy. The NHL operates two subscription-based services allowing access to live, out-of-market games. [25] The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, and were joined by the Pittsburgh Pirates. [94] Near the end of both ends of the rink, there is a thin red goal line spanning the width of the ice, which is used to judge goals and icing calls. In the Stanley Cup Final, the team with the most points during the regular season has home-ice advantage. From 1998 to 2014, during the quadrennial Winter Olympic years, the NHL suspended its all-star game and expanded the traditional all-star break to allow NHL players to represent their countries in the Olympic ice hockey tournament; starting 2018, because the All-Star game is held in late January, there would be no Olympic break. [130] Likewise, Tim Hortons is the league's official coffee and doughnuts chain in Canada, while Dunkin' Donuts is the NHL's sponsor in the US.[131]. In all rounds, the higher-ranked team is awarded home-ice advantage, with four of the seven games played at this team's home venue. [28] A group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. In addition to Canadian and American-born and trained players, who have historically composed a large majority of NHL rosters, the NHL also draws players from an expanding pool of other nations where organized and professional hockey is played. Deputy Commissioner & Chief Legal Officer: Executive VP & Director of Hockey Operations: This page was last edited on 16 May 2021, at 09:39. The National Hockey League has occasionally participated in international club competitions. NBCUniversal holds exclusive rights to Wednesday night games, all games televised by the NBC network, and every game in the Stanley Cup playoffs beginning in the second round. First, the league removed the "offside pass" or "two-line pass" rule, which required a stoppage in play if a pass originating from inside a team's defending zone was completed on the offensive side of the centre line, unless the puck crossed the line before the player. EN / FR. Despite only one trophy being used, the names of the teams winning and the players are engraved every year on the Stanley Cup. The league expanded for the first time in 17 years[81] to 31 teams in 2017 with the addition of the Vegas Golden Knights[54] and then approved a 32nd team, the Seattle Kraken, that will begin playing in the 2021–22 season. Subban and other NHL players on Canadian teams", "Coyotes to Move to Central Division in 2021-22", "Coyotes will switch divisions when new Seattle NHL team joins league", "Oh, what a night ... and morning. The table follows the Hockey Hall of Fame convention of classifying players by the currently existing countries in which their birthplaces are located, without regard to their citizenship or where they were trained. [30] The second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenz's family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game. The first international club competition was held in 1976, with eight NHL teams playing against the Soviet Championship League's HC CSKA Moscow, and Krylya Sovetov Moscow. Each National Hockey League regulation game is 60 minutes long. [135] Sportsnet's networks also air occasional games involving all-U.S. The team with the most goals during the three-round shootout wins the game. The chief executive of the league is Commissioner Gary Bettman. The team that has the most points in the regular season is awarded the Presidents' Trophy. Some of the principal decision-makers who serve under the authority of the commissioner include: From the 2017–18 season to 2019–20 season, the NHL consisted of 31 teams, 24 of which are based in the United States and seven in Canada. Founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. The suit came three months after the National Football League agreed to pay former players US$765 million due to a player safety lawsuit. Western teams play 26 or 29 games in their own geographic division—four or five against each of their six or seven other divisional opponents—and 21 or 24 games against the six or seven remaining non-divisional intra-conference opponents—three games against every team in the other division of its conference, with one cross-division intra-conference match-up occurring in four games. At least two of the North American corporate sponsors have ties to NHL franchise owners: the Molson family, founders of Molson Brewery, has owned the Montreal Canadiens for years, while SAP was co-founded by Hasso Plattner, the current majority owner of the San Jose Sharks. The NHL Network also airs live games, but primarily simulcasts of one of the team's regional broadcasters. The league temporarily realigned for the 2020–21 season and are expected to return to their previous alignment following the addition of the Seattle Kraken. [57] The league vowed to install what it dubbed "cost certainty" for its teams, but the Players' Association countered that the move was little more than a euphemism for a salary cap, which the union initially said it would not accept. Whichever team ultimately wins the shootout is awarded a goal in the game score and thus awarded two points in the standings. [62][63][64][65] A tentative agreement was reached on January 6, 2013, on a ten-year deal. At the end of regulation time, the team with the most goals wins the game. [110] The two conference champions proceed to the Stanley Cup Final. During the regular season, clubs play each other in a predefined schedule. The winning community gets a cash prize dedicated to upgrading their local home arena, as well as the opportunity to host an NHL pre-season game. Czechoslovakia 1920 - 1992 Soviet Union 1922 - 1992 Outside of Canada and the United States, NHL games are broadcast across Europe, in the Middle East, in Australia,[150] and in the Americas across Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, South America and Brazil, among others. As of the 2017–18 season, the NHL has players from 17 different countries, with 46.0% coming from Canada and 26.0% from the United States, while players from a further 15 countries make up 26.4% of NHL rosters. [95] The goaltender can play the puck only within the trapezoid or in front of the goal line; if the goaltender plays the puck behind the goal line and outside the trapezoidal area, a two-minute minor penalty for delay of game is assessed. Furthermore, the top coach in the league wins the Jack Adams Award as selected by a poll of the National Hockey League Broadcasters Association. Split squad games, in which parts of a team's regular season roster play separate games on the same day, are occasionally played during the preseason. Two contests are held, one for communities across Canada and a separate competition for communities in the US. [146] Under this contract, NBCSN usually airs at least two regular season games per week, while NBC airs afternoon games on selected weekends. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) for the 1925 Stanley Cup. The NHL received record attendance in the 2005–06 season: an average of 16,955 per game. Its signature show is NHL Tonight. [38][39] Ten years later, Willie O'Ree became the first black player in league history on January 18, 1958, when he made his debut with the Boston Bruins. The penalty shot was adopted from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association to ensure players were not being blocked from opportunities to score. [35], In 1945, Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first player to score 50 goals, doing so in a 50-game season. These six teams remained constant for 25 years, a period known as the Original Six. Early NHL drafts took place at the Queen Elizabeth (currently Fairmont) Hotel in Montreal. That expansion capped a period in the 1990s of rapid expansion and relocation when the NHL added nine teams to grow from 21 to 30 teams, and relocated four teams mostly from smaller, northern cities to larger, more southern metropolitan areas (Minneapolis to Dallas, Quebec City to Denver, Winnipeg to Phoenix, and Hartford to Raleigh). The league's regular season standings are based on a point system. In this position, Salmond oversees all operations for Canada's men's, women's and para hockey teams. [59] The league's post-lockout agreement with NBC gave the league a share of revenue from each game's advertising sales, rather than the usual lump sum paid up front for game rights. As a result, on December 20, 2020, the League announced it had temporarily suspended the Eastern and Western Conferences and re-aligned into four Divisions: North, East, Central, and West. [43] Two years later, the emergence of the newly founded World Hockey Association (WHA) led the league to add the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames to keep the rival league out of those markets. The debut of the Winter Classic, an outdoor regular season NHL game held on New Year's Day 2008, was a major success for the league. However, national telecasts of these games are blacked out in the participating teams' markets to protect the local broadcaster. Regional games are subject to blackout for viewers outside of each team's designated market.[144]. [citation needed] These improvements led NBC and the cable channel Versus to sign a ten-year broadcast deal, paying US$200 million per year for both American cable and broadcast rights; the deal will lead to further increases in television coverage on the NBC channels. [74] The first female referees in the NHL were hired in a test-run during the league's preseason prospect tournaments in September 2019. [55][82], According to Forbes, in 2019, all five of the most valuable teams were "Original Six" teams: the New York Rangers at approximately $1.65 billion, the Toronto Maple Leafs at $1.5 billion, the Montreal Canadiens at $1.34 billion, the Chicago Blackhawks at $1.08 billion, and the Boston Bruins at $1 billion. The U.S. version simulcasts selected regular season games nationally that are not aired by NBC Sports, as well as be used as an overflow channel during the playoffs. [120][121] The following table shows the six countries make up the vast majority of NHL players. Background. 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