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National Hockey League was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 13, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 13, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 29, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 4, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 9, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted
December 27, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 26, 2004, November 26, 2005, November 26, 2007, November 26, 2012, November 26, 2017, and November 26, 2019.
Current status: Delisted good article

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

Section sizes

Section size for National Hockey League (40 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,192	13,192
History	75	37,151
Early years	6,428	6,428
Original Six era	4,127	4,127
Expansion era	8,895	8,895
Labour issues	8,141	8,141
Player safety issues	4,054	4,054
Women in the NHL	5,431	5,431
Teams	5,180	14,975
List of teams	9,689	9,689
Timeline	106	106
Organizational structure	29	3,131
Board of Governors	1,451	1,451
Executives	1,651	1,651
Rule differences with international hockey	13,007	13,007
Season structure	3,224	3,224
Entry draft	2,461	2,461
Trophies and awards	72	11,799
Teams	4,331	7,040
Division titles	2,709	2,709
Players	4,687	4,687
Origin of players	9,245	9,245
Corporate sponsors	4,062	4,062
Media coverage	267	17,189
Canada	7,100	7,100
United States	3,881	3,881
NHL Network	530	530
Out-of-market packages	3,671	3,671
International	1,740	1,740
International competitions	31	9,913
Club participation	4,377	4,377
Permittance of NHL players in international competitions	5,505	5,505
Popularity	5,668	5,668
See also	492	492
Notes	34	34
References	16	2,810
Footnotes	29	29
Bibliography	2,765	2,765
Further reading	1,690	1,690
External links	1,349	1,349
Total	151,392	151,392

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"No hockey? No problem". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. January 11, 2005.

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