The Omaha Lancers, a United States Hockey League team that played at Aksarben until 2004, moved to neighboring city of Council Bluffs at the Mid-America Center, and moved back to Omaha in 2009 to play at the Civic Auditorium The University of Nebraska at Omaha Mavericks, is an NCAA Division I team that plays at the CenturyLink Center.

The Mississippi RiverKings, formerly the Memphis RiverKings, is a professional hockey team of the Central Hockey League " Class AA " which plays its home games in DeSoto County.

* Khabarovsk is home to a Kontinental Hockey League franchise, Amur Khabarovsk, which plays its home games at the Platinum Arena.

Other teams include the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League, which plays at Cox Convention Center.

Holt Harlequins Hockey Club ( formerly Cromer Hockey Club ) plays at the astro turf ground at Greshams school.

The Port Huron Fighting Falcons of the junior North American Hockey League currently plays at McMorran Place, beginning in 2010.

The team plays in the Minnesota Junior Hockey League

* Tyler Myers, pro hockey player who plays for the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League

There is also a hockey team called DHK Latgale, which currently plays in the Latvian Hockey League.

The Miskolc Ice-bears Hockey Team also plays in the first division.

Camberley and Farnborough Hockey Club plays men's and women's field hockey at Kings International College and draw many players from the region.

Spezza plays for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

Hockey Club Lugano ( HCL ) plays in the Switzerland National League.

Although the university primarily plays in NCAA Division II, three sports play as Division I members at the National Collegiate level in certain sports: the women's ice hockey team plays in Division I and is a member of College Hockey America ( CHA ); Men's volleyball competes as a Division I team as member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association ( MIVA ); and the women's gymnastics team will be competition in the 2012-13 academic year as Division I program with the Midwest Independent Conference ( MIC ).

Witney Hockey Club men's first XI plays in the England Hockey Men's Conference East division and its ladies ' first XI plays in South Clubs ' Women's Hockey League Division 3A.

Bryan Allen ( born August 21, 1980 ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

The arena also serves as home to the Charlotte Checkers, a hockey team that plays in the American Hockey League.

* Gates Fields Contains two softball diamond located at the Gates School and a large grass area used for JH Field Hockey.

Without a contract with the Leafs for the 1972-73 season, Parent signed a large contract with the Miami Screaming Eagles of the newly forming World Hockey Association.

* Hockey – In Canada, a large majority of future NHL players develop as juniors in the professional Canadian Hockey League.

The reserve clause was the basis for the NHL's injunction against the large number of players who had signed with the rival World Hockey Association in 1972, with all but one — against Chicago Black Hawks star Bobby Hull -- ultimately thrown out by lower courts.

Eurosport television ratings for the recent Indoor Hockey World Cup, held in Leipzig, Germany, have shown the event to garner large audiences.

The arena's large capacity was in part designed to lure a potential National Hockey League expansion franchise ; however, the location of the arena ( less than 50 miles from the home arenas of both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres, the latter of which has explicitly opposed any NHL presence in Hamilton ) has proven to be an obstacle to landing a team, and the NHL has rejected overtures to relocate a team to the arena.

The hockey and figure skating associations split when the sports became large enough to be independent, and the hockey association was renamed to the Ice Hockey Federation of Israel.

He quickly became the American Hockey Association's most popular star as large crowds attended games he participated in, and was named an AHA all-star in 1939.

However, since the 1990s hockey has become increasingly popular in the Sun Belt due in large part to the expansion of the National Hockey League to cities like Anaheim, California ; Tampa, Florida ; Dallas, Texas ; Raleigh, North Carolina ; Nashville, Tennessee ; and Phoenix, Arizona.

The suburb has a large sporting facility, Iluka Sports Complex ( Beaumaris Sports Association ), the home of Joondalup City Football Club, Joondalup District Cricket Club, Joondalup Lakers Hockey Club and the RugbyWA back to back helathway Club Champions Joondalup Brothers Rugby Union Football Club as well as private functions.

Avangard is part of the Kontinental Hockey League.

The team was founded in 1972 during the 1972 – 73 NHL season as part of a bid to keep the rival World Hockey Association out of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum where the Islanders have played since their founding.

The Hurricanes were formed in 1971 as the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ), and joined the NHL in 1979 as part of the NHL-WHA merger, renaming themselves the Hartford Whalers.

Starting in the 2012-2013 season, the women's team will be part of the College Hockey America conference, and will be eligible for conference postseason play, but not NCAA postseason play.

The first organization of Slovak ice hockey was established under the name of Slovenská župa kanadského ľadového hokeja as a part of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation in what was then Czechoslovakia.

They are a part of the Central Junior A Hockey League.

Holcombe Hockey Club is also nearby, with men's 1st part of the England National Hockey League for a number of years.

Ferris State offers an intercollegiate athletic program which includes 14 men ’ s and women ’ s sports at the NCAA Division II level, except for men's ice hockey which competes in NCAA Division I. Ferris States is a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

Another sports book, Open Net, saw him train as an ice hockey goalie with the Boston Bruins, even playing part of a National Hockey League preseason game.

He will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November as part of its 2012 class.

Oates will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of its 2012 class.

The team was created as part of the NHL's conflict with the rival World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in a bid to keep the latter league out of the Omni Coliseum.

Big-league hockey would not return to Quebec City until the Quebec Nordiques were founded in 1972 as part of the new World Hockey Association.

The University of Wisconsin men's and women's ice hockey teams each played an outdoor hockey game at Camp Randall Stadium on February 6, 2010, as part of the Culver's Camp Randall Hockey Classic.

It was the first National Hockey League game to be played outdoors as a part of regular season play.

* Colonial Hockey League, later known as the United Hockey League ( 1991-2010 ), a minor professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada, now part of the Central Hockey League

He learned hockey playing for Youth Hockey of Winthrop as part of the GBYHL ( Greater Boston Youth Hockey League ).

He scored 83 goals and 156 points in only 80 games for Burnaby, while attending school at Burnaby North Secondary Soon after, he was added to the Lethbridge Broncos of the Western Hockey League for the last part of the 1985 – 86 season.

St. Louis played for Team Canada at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, where he was part of the team which won the World Cup, and the 2006 Winter Olympics which saw them eliminated by Russia in the quarterfinals after what was considered a disappointing tournament.