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The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 30 teams – 23 in the United States and 7 in Canada – with a 31st team in Las Vegas scheduled to begin play in the 2017–18 season.

Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season.

Duncan Keith (born July 16, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and an alternate captain for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Keith is known as a two-way defenceman, capable in both shutdown and offensive roles.

He is a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Blackhawks in 2010, 2013 and 2015.

On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Keith was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

Defence (defense in the USA) in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring.

They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D.men or blueliners (the latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally position themselves along the line to keep the puck in the zone).

They were once called cover-point.

A good defenceman is both strong in defensive and offensive play and for defenceman pairing also need to be good at defending and attacking.