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Draft Archive at hockeydb.com -- the Internet Hockey Database (456 words) |
 | If an NHL team sponsored a junior team and a player was on that team, their rights belonged to the NHL team and the player could not play for any NHL team except the sponsor. |
| However, the first few years of the NHL draft were still affected by the sponsorship system since sponsored players were not eligible to be drafted. |
| When the rules for the NHL draft were drawn up, the Montreal Canadiens were given two priority picks which could be exercised before any other teams had selected players. |
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National Hockey League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2412 words) |
| NHL is also an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark, National Hurling League in the GAA and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| The NHL continued to expand in the two decades that followed, and in 2000 reached its present total of 30 teams. |
| Eventually, the 2004-05 NHL season was cancelled, and the NHL became the first major North American sports league in history to lose an entire season because of labour disputes. |
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