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The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). [2] The league comprises 32 teams, with 26 in the United States and 6 in Canada. As of the 2024–25 AHL season, all 32 NHL teams held affiliations with an AHL team ...
1.1 Team and NHL affiliation changes. 1.2 ... The 2024–25 AHL season is the 89th season of the American Hockey League. The regular season began on October 11, 2024 ...
The 2023–24 AHL season was the 88th season of the American Hockey League.The regular season began on October 13, 2023, and ended on April 21, 2024. The 2024 Calder Cup playoffs followed the conclusion of the regular season, and ended on June 24, with the Hershey Bears winning their 13th Calder Cup in franchise history, and their 14th league championship (including the pandemic-curtailed 2020 ...
Teams Regular season Calder Cup playoffs Number of teams Changes 1936–37: East Division: 4 West Division: 4 The Buffalo Bisons ceased operations after 11 games, reducing the West Division to 3 teams. 1937–38: East Division: 4 West Division: 3 The Cleveland Falcons became the Cleveland Barons. 1938–39: East Division: 4 West Division: 4
The 2020–21 AHL season was the 85th season of the American Hockey League. Due to the ongoing restrictions in the COVID-19 pandemic , the start of the regular season was pushed back to February 5, 2021, [ 1 ] and the league's playoff tournament championship Calder Cup was not awarded for the second consecutive season.
The 2017–18 AHL season was the 82nd season of the American Hockey League. The regular season ran from October 6, 2017, to April 15, 2018. [1] The 2018 Calder Cup playoffs followed the conclusion of the regular season. The Toronto Marlies won their first Calder Cup in seven games over the Texas Stars.
After the National Hockey League (NHL) added the Vegas Golden Knights for the 2017–18 season, the NHL had 31 teams while the AHL still had 30. After exploring other AHL expansion options, [3] [4] the NHL Vegas expansion team eventually affiliated with the Chicago Wolves on a multi-year agreement. [5]
The Checkers inherited the River Rats' affiliation with the Carolina Hurricanes, in keeping with a recent trend to have NHL teams' top affiliates geographically close to their parent teams in order to ease movement between the AHL and the NHL. The AHL Checkers' first home game was October 15, 2010, at the Time Warner Cable Arena in front of ...