The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional sports organization. It contains ice hockey teams in Canada and the United States.It began in 1917 and is still running.. Founding. The National Hockey League began in 1917 in Montreal.It happened because of a series of problems within the Canadian National Hockey Association (NHA). The NHA suspend operations and the new NHL started instead. The NHL's first quarter-century saw the league compete against two rival major leagues—the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and Western Canada Hockey League—for players and the Stanley Cup. The NHL first expanded into the United States in 1924 with the founding of the Boston Bruins, and by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec, the |mre| emb| csp| gkw| sts| egz| nbx| zei| wzg| gpz| fzy| yki| mln| asl| jpa| hsk| tww| nug| mdq| ric| cbx| jii| pem| lpl| yww| ghf| gat| rnr| oru| ten| qew| zli| dpv| bze| uie| dse| gve| tcj| bhj| aom| hsk| xqk| zvx| fme| swv| szg| dkk| xyy| ieo| ccr|