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The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). [2] The league comprises 32 teams, with 26 in the United States and 6 in Canada .
The AHL will continue to use the same playoff format used since 2022. The playoff field will include the top six finishers in the eight-team Atlantic Division, the top five finishers each in the seven-team North and Central Divisions, and the top seven teams in the 10-team Pacific Division.
The 2024 Calder Cup playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Hockey League (AHL) to determine the winner of the Calder Cup, which is awarded to the AHL playoff champions. All teams except the bottom two teams of the Atlantic, North, and Central divisions, as well as the bottom three teams of the Pacific division qualified for the ...
The 2023–24 AHL season was the 88th season of the American Hockey League.The regular season began on October 13, 2023, and ended on April 21, 2024. The 2024 Calder Cup playoffs followed the conclusion of the regular season, and ended on June 24, with the Hershey Bears winning their 13th Calder Cup in franchise history, and their 14th league championship (including the pandemic-curtailed 2020 ...
The 2020–21 AHL season was the 85th season of the American Hockey League. Due to the ongoing restrictions in the COVID-19 pandemic , the start of the regular season was pushed back to February 5, 2021, [ 1 ] and the league's playoff tournament championship Calder Cup was not awarded for the second consecutive season.
They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the American Hockey League (AHL). The Firebirds began play in the 2022–23 AHL season. [1] The team is an owned-and-operated affiliate of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Seattle Kraken. [2]
The league expanded by adding the Colorado Eagles to the Pacific Division and moved the two Texas-based teams to the Central Division from the Pacific. The Cleveland Monsters were moved from the Central to the North Division. [1] Similar to the California and Arizona teams in the Pacific Division, Colorado plays 68 games in the regular season.
The AHL franchise is a relocation of the Oklahoma City Barons, which joined four other AHL franchises in 2015 as the basis to form a new Pacific Division in California.