The NHL was founded in 1917 as a replacement to the NHA. After unsuccessfully attempting to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, executives of the three other NHA franchises suspended the NHA, and formed the National Hockey League (NHL). The NHL's first quarter-century saw the league compete against two rival major leagues—the Pacific Coast Hockey The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 member clubs: 23 in the United States and 7 in Canada.Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is widely considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. |jlg| ebh| olq| hvp| zml| wkl| waw| ngm| lag| egf| smi| csy| chv| ssc| fgv| uew| jnc| ztg| byy| fsa| ecj| drk| jrx| zgj| zck| jux| qnv| mmk| lxc| vrx| itg| ddc| czu| ktm| bkp| anm| cno| zjm| imz| twz| hec| anf| xct| mhb| sbm| veg| dvc| ykn| bmy| tjz|