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National Ringette League
Sport Ringette
Founded 2004
CEO Maurice Jean
No. of teams 19
Country  Canada
TV partner(s) CAN: Rogers TV
Official website NRL.ca

The National Ringette League (also indicated by the initials NRL) is a elite league of ringette in Canada. The NRL groups together the best nineteen-year-old players at least of the country. The NRL consists of nineteen teams separated into two conferences. The western conference has six teams and the east conference has thirteen teams. The LNR recovers directly from Ringuette Canada, the guiding organisation for the ringette in Canada. The great majority of the players come from Canada even if some players arise from the United States or from Finland.

History

Ringette is introduced in 1963 at North Bay, Ontario. The sport is now played by 50,000 girls across Canada. The creation of the National Ringette League is following the success of the 2002 ringette world championships at Edmonton where Canada took gained the golden medal. The first NRL season is thrown in November 2004 with 17 teams. In 2011-12 season, the NRL enters its eighth season with 19 teams playing in two conferences:

Team City/Area
Eastern Conference
Gatineau Fusion Gatineau, Quebec
Gloucester Devils Gloucester, Ontario
Ottawa Ice Ottawa, Ontario
Quebec City Cyclones Quebec City, Quebec
Atlantic Attack Moncton, New Brunswick
Bourassa Royal Laval, Quebec
Lac-Saint-Louis Adrenaline West-Montreal, Quebec
Montreal Mission Montréal, Quebec
Rive Sud Revolution South Shore Montreal, Quebec
Cambridge Turbos Cambridge, Ontario
Richmond Hill Lightning Richmond Hill, Ontario
Waterloo Wildfire Waterloo, Ontario
Whitby Wild Whitby, Ontario
Western Conference
Calgary Rath Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton WAM! Edmonton, Alberta
LMRL Thunder British Columbia
Manitoba Jets Winnipeg, Manitoba
Prairie Fire Winnipeg, Manitoba
Saskatoon Wild Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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The regular season of the NRL begins in October and comes to an end in March. All in all, thirty one matches are competed by each of the teams during the regular season. Each of the teams faces only teams of his conference. This structure allows to reduce the costs of transport given the size of the Canadian territory covered by the league. At the end of the regular season, there is a break of a week when the various individual distinctions are awarded, then a NRL Championship Tournament.

National Champions

In 2010-11 season, new fact, a NRL Championship Tournament replaces the Championship qualifying rounds, this tournament takes place in just one city. This allows to create a media event and to hold attention. Ten better teams in the regular season of the league, participate in this tournament which crowns the team champion of the league.

From March 27th till April 2nd, 2011, the NRL Championship Tournament takes place to Cambridge, Ontario. In Final game, the Edmonton WAM! triumph over the Cambridge Turbos

This is a list of NRL champions season by season:

  • 2010-11 : Edmonton WAM!
  • 2009-10 : Edmonton WAM!
  • 2008-09 : Cambridge Turbos
  • 2007-08 : Cambridge Turbos
  • 2006-07 : Edmonton WAM! '
  • 2005-06 : Cambridge Turbos
  • 2004-05 : No championship match

The championship final game is broadcast on Rogers TV.

Awards and honours

At the end of each season (at the end of March) the League quotes its annuals awards during the week of break pre-tournament eliminating playoffs. The annual NRL honors reward the athletes having obtained excellent performances during the regular season. Each of 2 conference presents one athlete and a coach as finalist in every category, and the National Championship Tournament are chosen among these finalists.

Developing young players

The NRL works with the lower Ringette leagues to help young girl players improve in the sport. Several NRL teams additional teams of young players under 19 years old and under 16 years old. The Canadians Championship U16 and U19 (usually in April) take place in the same place as the NRL playoff tournament. This helps the tracers from the NRL teams to identify the young talented players.

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