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In North America, hockey is governed
by the National Hockey League (NHL). The
league is made up of two conferences
with three divisions in each. There are
twenty-four teams playing in America and
another six in Canada for a total of
thirty teams. Even though there are
fewer Canadian teams, Canadians
themselves make up most of the players
in the NHL. The league has its origin in
Montreal, Quebec, with American and
Eastern Europeans making up almost all
of the rest of the players. While
references to hockey are said to have
been made throughout the world, the
game’s true beginnings are given to
students are McGill University in
Montreal in 1875. The first teams were
Canadian as was the first organized
hockey league, the National Hockey
Association. But as tensions arose
between team owners, they finally
managed to create a new league in 1917,
the NHL.
The NHL hockey season consists of 82
games played mostly against the teams in
their division, while also playing some
teams not in their division. The
division with which a certain team will
play against is rotated each year. With
each regular season win a team will be
awarded two points. When a team wins in
overtime or a shootout, the team will be
awarded one point, while a loss earns
the team no points. The winner of each
division is the team with the highest
number of points, as well as the teams
with the next highest point total in
each of the five conferences all qualify
for the playoffs. You don’t want to miss
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The Stanley Cup is one of the oldest
trophies in professional sports. It was
named after Lord Stanley Preston, The
Governor General of Canada who had an
inherent love for the game. After his
family became actively involved in the
game, he decided it would be fun to have
a championship cup that can be awarded
to and held by the winning championship
team. He purchased the large trophy from
a silversmith in London for about the
equivalent of $49 US dollars. The words
“Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup” were
engraved on it. Each year, the winner of
the Finals was given the right to
engrave their team name on the base ring
of the cup trophy. By 1902, the base
ring of the cup was full and teams would
either have to buy another ring, or
start engraving on other parts of the
cup, which is exactly what happened. In
1907, the Montreal Wanderers engraved
their name on the inside of the bowl,
along with the name of every player on
their team. Eventually, a second band
was added to the cup. Teams began adding
a new band each year until eventually,
the entire trophy had to be redesigned.
It now has 5 rings under it that teams
can engrave their name on. When all five
bands were finally engraved, the top
band was removed and a new blank band
was added to the bottom so that the
trophy wouldn’t get any bigger.
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