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Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:National Hockey League teams. It includes National Hockey League teams that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The National Hockey League (NHL); French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ] (LNH), is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
The Canadian Hockey League (CHL) is the governing body for Major Junior hockey (formerly known as Tier One Junior A), the top level of amateur hockey in Canada. The CHL currently oversees the Western Hockey League (WHL), the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), with the OHL and WHL having teams in both Canada and the United States.
Canadian International Hockey League (2014) - played one season; Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League (2016-2022) Canadian Women's Hockey League (2007–2019) Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League (1970–2016) – became Orr Division of the PJHL; Canadian Professional Hockey League (1926–1930) Central Hockey League (1963–1984)
Utah Hockey Club: None n/a n/a n/a n/a [67] Winnipeg Jets (Atlanta Thrashers) Philips Arena: 1999–2011 18,545 1999 Atlanta, Georgia [68] [69] Pacific Division: Team Arena Years used Capacity Opened Location Reference Anaheim Ducks (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) None n/a n/a n/a n/a [70] Calgary Flames (Atlanta Flames) Stampede Corral: 1980–1983 ...
Map of relocated NHL teams. The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional men's ice hockey league, founded in 1917. [1] The NHL Board of Governors review and approve the relocation of any member club. [2] Each team appoints an individual or individuals to represent their team on the Board of Governors. [3]
The league announced on April 19, 2011, that it would merge with the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) for the 2011–12 season. The merger was to feature one team based in Edmonton and Calgary and is a combination of the former WWHL franchises, the Edmonton Chimos and Strathmore Rockies , with games in various locations around Alberta.