Anaheim Ducks Logo — Anaheim Ducks is a professional team of ice hockey in the United States located in Anaheim (California). The club was founded in 1993 by the Walt Disney Company under the name Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, based on the movie The Mighty Ducks. Since 2004 the team belongs to Henry Samueli and his wife Susan, who changed the name of the club in 2006 to present. The team plays in the National Hockey League framed in the Pacific Division.

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During the summer of 2004, the strike of NHL players who came to completely paralyze the championship meant that Disney wanted to get rid of the club. The company sold the Ducks by a bid of $ 75 million to the founder of Broadcom, Henry Samueli and his wife Susan. The new owners expressed their desire to keep the franchise in Anaheim and they signed Brian Burke, former director of the Vancouver Canucks, as the new Director General. His new manager would be Randy Carlyle, from a minor league team affiliated with the Canucks. More

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Vancouver Canucks Logo — Vancouver Canucks is a professional team of ice hockey Canada which sits in the city of Vancouver (British Columbia). It was created in 1945 as an amateur team, and after passing through two minor league reached the National Hockey League in 1970. His nickname Canuck is a slang term used to refer to any individual in Canada. The team plays in the National Hockey League, framed in the Northwest Division.

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Although the Vancouver franchise entered the NHL in 1970, the city had its first professional team in 1911 : the Vancouver Millionaires, who got in its history five Stanley Cup, being the last one in 1915. When that team disappeared in 1926, the town had several minor league teams. One of them, the Vancouver Canucks, was established in 1945 as a whole amateur racing in the Pacific Coast Hockey League. In 1952 he joined the so-called Western Hockey League (not to be confused with the WHL professional), which won four titles in 1958, 1960, 1969 and 1970. More

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Minnesota Wild Logo — Minnesota Wild is a team of professional ice hockey U.S. which sits in the city of Saint Paul (Minnesota). Was created in 2000 as expansion franchise. The club plays in the National Hockey League framed in the Northwest Division.

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Previously, the state of Minnesota had a hockey team in the NHL, known as the Minnesota North Stars. This franchise was based in the state from 1967 until 1993, when they moved to Dallas to be called the Dallas Stars. In 1997, four years after the departure of the North Stars, the organization of the NHL decided to grant a new franqucia in that area would begin play in 2000-01. The new team would be called Minnesota Wild, and play within the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. More

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Edmonton Oilers Logo — The Edmonton Oilers are a team of ice hockey in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the city of Edmonton, Canada, which joined in 1979, after seven years of membership in the World Hockey Association. The Oilers have won the Stanley Cup five times: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1990. They have also won the Presidents Trophy for best regular season team in 1984, 1986 and 1987. In 1983 they lost the final of the Stanley Cup against the New York Islanders. And in 2006 they lost the seventh game against Carolina Hurricanes.

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Wayne Gretzky won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player eight times with the Oilers. He has also won the Art Ross Trophy seven times in Edmonton, the honor of being the top scorer (now known as Maurice Richard Trophy) 5 times, and the Conn Smythe Trophy as best player in the playoffs twice. Gretzky has established many records in the league over the Oilers, including the most goals (92), assists (163) and points (215) in a single season. More

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Colorado Avalanche Logo — Colorado Avalanche are a professional team of ice hockey in the United States, located in Denver (Colorado). It was founded in 1995 following the transfer of the previous franchise, the Quebec Nordiques, and in his first season of existence managed to take over the Stanley Cup. During the years 1990 Colorado was one of the rulers of the championship, and currently holds the record for victories in consecutive Division (nine from 1995 to 2003). The team plays in the National Hockey League framed in the Northwest Division.

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The team was welcomed in the new city, and his first game was at the McNichols Sports Arena on October 6 of 1995 against the Detroit Red Wings team that later became one of its main rivals in the league. His first stars were Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Adam Foote, coached by Pierre Lacroix as CEO and Marc Crawford as coach. In December, the club signed goalkeeper Patrick Roy, from Montreal Canadiens, who became Sakic with one of the banners of the first team in Denver. More

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Calgary Flames Logo — Calgary Flames are a professional team of ice hockey Canada which sits in the city of Calgary (Alberta). Founded in 1972 as the Atlanta Flames in Atlanta, the team moved in 1980 to its current city. The team plays in the National Hockey League framed in the Northwest Division. The history of the franchise began in 1968, when businessman Tom Cousins ​​and the Governor of the State of Georgia, Carl Sanders, bought the St. Louis Hawks of the NBA and moved the franchise to the city of Atlanta. The construction of the Omni Coliseum, multipurpose pavilion to house the basketball team, led to the possibility of an ice hockey team will settle in the city.

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This was confirmed in November 1971 when the National Hockey League expansion franchise secured a group of Cousins ​​for the 1972-73 season, which meant further expansion to the south of the championship. The team hired Cliff Fletcher as general manager and former Canadian star Bernie Geoffrion as a coach. During the first season the team gave a good image, but failed to qualify in his debut season if he did a year later, falling in the quarterfinals against Philadelphia Flyers. In 1974-75 again left out. More

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