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In 1998, the NHL began awarding teams a single point for losing in overtime, hoping to reduce the number of tie games; after the 2004–05 lockout, it eliminated the tie altogether, introducing the shootout to ensure that each game has a winner. Map of Canadian provinces and U.S. states, and what decade they got their first NHL team.
In 2018, the NHL did not schedule an Olympic break, resulting in their players not participating in that year's Olympic tournament. [171] An Olympic break was also not scheduled in 2022, with the NHL opting to not permit its players to participate due to a shortened NHL season that year, and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. [172]
However, disagreement between the NHL Board of Governors and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) caused it to be pushed to 2013. On December 5, 2011, the NHL Board of Governors originally approved a conference realignment plan to move from a six-division setup to a four-conference structure. [5]
This table lists the number of times that NHL/NHA teams had the top record in the regular season (this list does not count Stanley Cup/League Champion wins). The Presidents' Trophy is the current award for the team with the best regular season record, which began being awarded starting with the 1985–86 NHL season.
It grew from 22 teams at the start of this period to 30 at the end, as the league expanded across the United States. Repeated labour conflicts interrupted play in 1992 , 1994–95 , 2004–05 and 2012–13 ; the second lockout caused the entire 2004–05 NHL season to be canceled, the first time in North American history that a sports league ...
The 2024-25 NHL regular season will start in Europe on Oct. 4-5 when the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres play on back-to-back nights in Prague, ... The date for the NHL draft is TBA.
Saturday, April 20 marks the official day that the first round begins. The postseason was supposed to get underway on Monday, April 22, but the league moved up the start date two days earlier.
The Toronto Maple Leafs play the Chicago Black Hawks.Note the goaltender is playing without a mask. The Original Six era of the National Hockey League (NHL) began in 1942 with the demise of the Brooklyn Americans, reducing the league to six teams: Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs.