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The NHL draws many highly skilled hockey players from all over the world. Currently, the hockey league has players from about 20 different countries. Canadians have historically constituted a large majority of the hockey players in the NHL because both the sport and the league originated in Canada. In the past 25 years, the percentages of American and European players have increased because of the NHL's continued expansion into the United States, its high standard of play compared to other leagues, and the availability of highly skilled European players.

The NHL's teams were very successful on the ice; only once, in 1925, did a hockey team from any other league win the Stanley Cup, and by 1926 the NHL was the only league competing for the Cup.The NHL then started a
process of expansion: the Boston Bruins (the first U.S.-based NHL franchise) and Montreal Maroons entered the league in 1924–25; the New York Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates entered in the 1925–26 season; and
the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks (now
spelled Blackhawks), and Detroit Cougars (now known
as the
Red Wings) entered in the 1926–27 season, raising the number of teams in the NHL to ten. The Great
Depression and the onset of World War II, took a toll on the league, and by 1942 the NHL was reduced to six teams. These
six teams (the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, and New York Rangers) are collectively known as the Original Six, and for the next quarter-century were the only teams in the National Hockey League. During this time the Norris family had influence over four of the
teams as Detroit and Chicago were operated by members of the family, and Boston and New York had mortgages
to the family. The media would nickname the league the "Norris House League.
By the mid 1960s, the desire for a network television contract in the U.S., and concerns that the Western Hockey League was planning to declare itself a major league and challenge for the Stanley Cup, spurred the
NHL to undertake its first expansion since the 1920s. Six new teams were added to the NHL roster in 1967, and were placed in their own newly-created division. Two teams each were added in California, Pennsylvania, and the Mississippi River valley. The hockey teams were the Los Angeles Kings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota North Stars, and St. Louis Blues. Three years later, the NHL added the Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres.
In 1972, the World Hockey Association was formed, and though it never challenged for the Stanley Cup, the
WHA's status as a potential rival to the NHL did not go unnoticed. In response, the NHL decided to rush its own expansion plans in 1972 by adding the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames (which became the Calgary Flames
in 1980) to forestall WHA franchises in newly constructed arenas in those markets, followed by the addition of the Kansas City Scouts (which became the Colorado Rockies in 1976 before becoming the New Jersey Devils in 1982) and Washington Capitals two years later. The two leagues fought for the rights of hockey players and fans until the WHA folded in 1979 as part of an agreement whereby
four of the remaining six WHA teams would enter the
NHL as expansion teams: the Hartford Whalers (the Carolina Hurricanes since 1997), Québec Nordiques (the Colorado Avalanche since 1995), Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets (the Phoenix Coyotes since 1996).

With the expansion in 1974, the NHL was aligned into 2 conferences. These conferences, Campbell (representing the west) and Wales (representing the east) each had 2 divisions.