* Adrian Aucoin ( born 1973 ), Canadian National Hockey League player

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

* Washington Capitals, a National Hockey League Team ( USA )

* Columbus Blue Jackets, National Hockey League team

The Phoenix Coyotes are a National Hockey League franchise based in Arizona.

They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

In 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored 30 goals and led the league in assists with 55, teamed up with Harvey to help start the National Hockey League Players ' Association ( NHLPA ).

Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer.

* 1973 – Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward

* 1961 – Steve Penney, National Hockey League goaltender

* 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.

North America's National Hockey League ( NHL ) is the strongest professional ice hockey league, drawing top ice hockey players from around the globe.

In North America, the National Hockey League ( NHL ) is the highest level for men, and the most popular.

It continues to be awarded today to the National Hockey League's championship team.

In 1910, the National Hockey Association ( NHA ) was formed in Montreal.

After re-organizing as the National Hockey League ( NHL ) in 1917, the league expanded into the United States in 1924.

* 1958 – Willie O ' Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

The James Norris Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League's top " defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability in the position ".

The trophy is named in honour of James E. Norris, owner of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings from 1932 to 1952.

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

* 1921 – Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player ( d. 1994 )

* 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

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When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

The 53-year-old Shea, a prominent corporation lawyer with a sports background, is generally recognized as the man most responsible for the imminent return of a National League club to New York.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

Transylvania Symphony Conductor Pfohl said yesterday that Mrs. Kennedy's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, told about plans for White House youth concerts before the National Symphony Orchestra League in Philadelphia last spring.

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The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

William Hulbert, principal owner of the Chicago White Stockings, did not like the loose organization of the National Association and the gambling element that influenced it, so he decided to create a new organization, which he dubbed the National League of Baseball Clubs.

In the following months, Hulbert and Spalding organized the National League by enlisting the four major teams in the East and the three other top teams in what was then considered to be the West.

Each signed the league's constitution, and the National League was officially born.

Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).