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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Team photograph of the Quebec Bulldogs, c. 1914. The Bulldogs were one of two professional hockey clubs formerly based in Quebec City
Videotron Centre is an indoor arena opened in Quebec City in 2015
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 has been suggested as a potential venue for a Hamilton-based NHL team
SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, 2015. A proposal was made to play several Phoenix Coyotes home games there in 2009.
The Toyota Center in Houston, 2010
The T-Mobile Center is an NHL-ready arena in Kansas City opened in 2007

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