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The National Hockey League is one of the top attended professional sports in the world, as well as one of the top two attended indoor sports in both average and total attendance. As of the 2018–19 season the NHL averaged 18,250 live spectators per game, and 22,002,081 total for the season.
Total attendance Average attendance Ref National Basketball Association (NBA) Basketball United States Canada: 1: 2022–23: 30: 1,230: 22,234,502: 18,077 [114] [115] National Hockey League (NHL) Ice hockey United States Canada: 1: 2022–23: 32: 1,310: 22,402,861: 17,099 [3] [116] Big3: Basketball United States: Independent 2018 8 32 431,500: ...
In the United States, college sports are very popular and at least one significant ice hockey league retains an amateur requirement. In Ireland, the All-Ireland senior championships in Gaelic football and hurling , both operated by the Gaelic Athletic Association , which continues to prohibit professionalism, each draw over 80,000 to fill Croke ...
The National Hockey League (NHL); French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ] (LNH), is a professional ice hockey league in North America consisting of 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
The NHL is the major professional hockey league in North America, with 25 US-based teams and 7 Canadian-based teams competing for the Stanley Cup. [21] While NHL stars are still not as readily familiar to the general American public as are stars of the NFL, MLB, and the NBA, average attendance for NHL games in the US has surpassed average NBA attendance in recent seasons, [22] [23] buoyed in ...
The National Hockey League is widely recognized as the world's premier professional ice hockey league, [26] and is the only "Big Four" league to have been founded in Canada. It was formed in 1917 as a successor to the Canadian National Hockey Association (founded in 1909), taking all but one of the
The Cold War, held November 6, 2001 at Spartan Stadium, had the highest ever attendance of an ice hockey game at that time. The 2008 NHL Winter Classic has the fourth-highest ever attendance of an ice hockey game, and the second highest for a game in a professional league.
The 2024–25 Nashville Predators season is the 27th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on June 25, 1997. [1] They will attempt to improve on their 47–30–5 record from last season and return to the playoffs for the second consecutive year.