The National Hockey League, often abbreviated to the NHL, is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which six are located in Canada and twenty-four in the United States. is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season.
The league was organized in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association, which had been founded in 1909.
The NHL draws many highly skilled players from all over the world and currently has players from about 20 different countries.
A series of disputes in the National Hockey Association between ...
