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The 1967 expansion doubled the number of teams in the league, with an upfront expansion fee of $2 million each ($18.3 million today). [1] For the 1967–68 season , six new teams were added to the NHL: the California Seals , the Los Angeles Kings , the Minnesota North Stars , the Philadelphia Flyers , the Pittsburgh Penguins , and the St. Louis ...
The expansion era of the National Hockey League (NHL) began when six new teams were added for the 1967–68 season, ending the Original Six era. The six existing teams were grouped into the newly created East Division , and the expansion teams—the Los Angeles Kings , Minnesota North Stars , Oakland Seals , Philadelphia Flyers , Pittsburgh ...
0–9. 1967 NHL expansion draft; 1970 NHL expansion draft; 1972 NHL expansion draft; 1974 NHL expansion draft; 1978 NHL dispersal draft; 1979 NHL expansion draft
It was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, [23] as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926, after the WCHL ceased operation. [24] The National Hockey League embarked on a rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons and the Boston Bruins in 1924, the latter being the first American team to join the ...
An expansion draft was held to help stock up the WHA refugees' NHL rosters. The expansion teams were also placed at the end of the draft order for the 1979 NHL entry draft, as opposed to typical expansion drafts in North American sports leagues, which usually place the expansion teams either at or very near the front of the draft order.
Since then, the league has grown from 22 teams in 1992 to 32 today as the NHL spread its footprint across the United States. The league has withstood major labour conflicts in 1994–95 and 2004–05 , the latter of which saw the entire 2004–05 NHL season canceled, the first time in North American history that a league has canceled an entire ...
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports and closed leagues. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansion draft.
The 2021 NHL expansion draft was an expansion draft that was conducted by the National Hockey League (NHL) on July 21, 2021, at Gas Works Park in Seattle. The draft took place to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 2021–22 season, the Seattle Kraken. The Kraken selected 30 players from 30 of the league's 31 teams, and 25 ...