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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.

The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey major league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979.

It was the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League (NHL) since the collapse of the Western Hockey League (1952–74).

Although the WHA was not the first league since that time to attempt to challenge the NHL's supremacy, it was by far the most successful in the modern era.

A hockey card is a type of trading card typically printed on some sort of card stock, featuring one or more ice hockey players or other hockey-related editorial and are typically found in countries such as Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden where hockey is a popular sport and there are professional leagues.

The obverse side normally features an image of the subject with identifying information such as name and team.

The reverse can feature statistics, biographical information, or as many early cards did, advertising.

There is no fixed size or shape of hockey cards, running the gamut from rectangular to circular, however modern North American cards have typically standardized on a 2.5 by 3.5 inch (6.35 cm by 8.89 cm) rectangular format.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing.

Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports.

Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities.

This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in various sports.

They generally have lesser fan bases and smaller budgets.