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National Hockey League (NHL) - a professional organization of 31 field hockey teams in North America. The teams belonging to the NHL compete for the Stanley Cup each season. 1)
Analysis indicates that in England, competitive ice hockey games were first played on skates and that the oldest rules were also written in England. Canada made major contributions to the game since 1870s. 2)
In 1893, the Stanley Cup was created, while the NHL was created in 1917. It was named after the Preston Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley. 3)
The Stanley Cup has been won every single year, except twice since 1914. There was one time in the course of a Spanish flu pandemic in 1919 and during the NHL lockout in 2005. 4)