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Potential National Hockey League expansion facts for kids

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The National Hockey League (NHL) has gone through many rounds of expansion and other organizational changes during its nearly 100-year history to reach its current number of thirty teams: twenty-three in the United States, and seven in Canada. On June 22, 2016 the NHL officially approved expansion to Las Vegas starting in the 2017–18 season. The new Las Vegas team was unveiled as the Vegas Golden Knights on November 22 of that year.

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  • Bulldogs

    Team photograph of the Quebec Bulldogs, c. 1914. The Bulldogs were one of two professional hockey clubs formerly based in Quebec City

  • CentreVideotron-StephaneGroleau-0800

    Videotron Centre is an indoor arena opened in Quebec City in 2015

  • Jim Balsillie

    Jim Balsillie in 2008. Balsillie has made several attempts to purchase an NHL team with the intent to relocate it to Hamilton or another locale in southern Ontario

  • FirstOntario Centre (36756191624)

    FirstOntario Centre has been suggested as a potential venue for a Hamilton-based NHL team

  • SaskTel Centre - Official Image

    SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, 2015. A proposal was made to play several Phoenix Coyotes home games there in 2009.

  • Toyota Center entr

    The Toyota Center in Houston, 2010

  • Sprint Center Kansas City Missouri

    The T-Mobile Center is an NHL-ready arena in Kansas City opened in 2007

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