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NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.

The New Jersey Devils are a professional National ice hockey League team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. They are currently members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. They were founded in 1974, in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974, they moved to Denver, Colorado after only two seasons, and then finally settled in New Jersey in 1982.

In the 1983-84 season, the Devils hosted the annual NHL All-Star Game at the Brendan Byrne Arena. Glenn Chico Resch was the winning goaltender, and Devils defenseman Joe Cirella tallied a goal as the Wales Conference beat the Campbell Conference 7-6. In 1987-88 season, the team played solidly, garnering the first winning record in the franchise's 13-year history. The Devils made the playoffs each year between 1990 and 1993, only to bow out in the first round all four times.

The team returned to the Eastern Conference Finals during the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers four games to two. They went on to win New Jersey's first-ever Stanley Cup, sweeping the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings. In 1999-00, they reached the top again, defeating the Dallas Stars in six games to win the Stanley Cup for the second time. In 2003 the Devils brought the Stanley Cup to New Jersey for a third time, beating the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim four games to three.

During the 2004-05 NHL lockouts, most Devils players played in European leagues and in the hockey world championships. In 2006, the Devils won their first round Stanley Cup playoff series against the New York Rangers four games to none, extending their winning streak to fifteen games and marking the first time the Devils defeated their cross-river rival in a playoff series.

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