NHL teams 2026-27: all 32 clubs by division, and the seven Canadian teams

There are 32 NHL teams for the 2026-27 season: 25 in the United States and seven in Canada. They split into two conferences of 16 and four divisions of eight. That structure shapes everything from the schedule to the playoff bracket. This page lists every club by division with its city, arena, first NHL season and Stanley Cup record, then covers the Canadian teams, the Original Six, how the league grew to 32 and how to bet on teams across a season. 19+ (18+ in AB, MB and QC).

Find your team

Every NHL club, grouped by division. Clubs with a Squawka team page link straight to it, with the 2026-27 schedule, the Canadian TV channel for each game, the roster, injuries and odds.

Atlantic DivisionEastern Conference

Boston BruinsBoston, MATeam pageBuffalo SabresBuffalo, NYTeam page

Detroit Red WingsDetroit, MI

Florida PanthersSunrise, FL

Montréal CanadiensMontréal, QCTeam pageOttawa SenatorsOttawa, ONTeam page

Tampa Bay LightningTampa, FL

Toronto Maple LeafsToronto, ONTeam page

Metropolitan DivisionEastern Conference

Carolina HurricanesRaleigh, NC

Columbus Blue JacketsColumbus, OH

New Jersey DevilsNewark, NJ

New York IslandersElmont, NY

New York RangersNew York, NY

Philadelphia FlyersPhiladelphia, PA

Pittsburgh PenguinsPittsburgh, PA

Washington CapitalsWashington, DC

Central DivisionWestern Conference

Chicago BlackhawksChicago, IL

Colorado AvalancheDenver, CO

Dallas StarsDallas, TX

Minnesota WildSaint Paul, MN

Nashville PredatorsNashville, TN

St. Louis BluesSt. Louis, MO

Utah MammothSalt Lake City, UT

Winnipeg JetsWinnipeg, MBTeam page

Pacific DivisionWestern Conference

Anaheim DucksAnaheim, CA

Calgary FlamesCalgary, ABTeam pageEdmonton OilersEdmonton, ABTeam page

Los Angeles KingsLos Angeles, CA

San Jose SharksSan Jose, CA

Seattle KrakenSeattle, WA

Vancouver CanucksVancouver, BCTeam page

Vegas Golden KnightsLas Vegas, NV

All 32 NHL teams by division

Each conference has two divisions of eight, and the tables follow that order. “In NHL since” is the franchise’s first NHL season; for the six clubs that began life in another city, the original city is shown in brackets and explained in the relocation section below. Stanley Cup totals count every title the franchise has won, including Montréal’s and Toronto’s wins from before 1927. Team details were checked against the NHL’s own data on 24 September 2026.

Eastern Conference: Atlantic Division

Eastern Conference: Metropolitan Division

Western Conference: Central Division

Western Conference: Pacific Division

Canadian NHL teams: all seven

There are seven Canadian NHL teams: the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, Montréal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets. Three play in the East and four in the West. Between them they hold 43 Stanley Cups, yet none has won since Montréal in 1993, and Canadian clubs have lost eight Finals in the years since. The full record is on our Stanley Cup winners page.

Each team’s current Stanley Cup price is on our Stanley Cup odds page, which reprices the whole board as the season moves.

Calgary Flames

Calgary arrived from Atlanta in 1980, eight years after the franchise was born there, and won its only Stanley Cup in 1989. The Flames reached the Final again in 2004 and lost in seven games to Tampa Bay. Last season was a rebuild: 77 points, no playoffs, and Matt Coronato top scorer with 45. A new building is coming. Calgary leaves the Saddledome for Scotia Place in time for 2027-28. On the July Cup board the Flames shared the longest price in the league with Vancouver.

Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton joined from the WHA in 1979 and won five Cups between 1984 and 1990. The current team is built around Connor McDavid, who won the 2026 Art Ross with 138 points, and Evan Bouchard, the league’s top-scoring defenceman on 95. The Oilers have reached three Finals since 2006. They lost all three, the last two to Florida in 2024 and 2025. They were the shortest-priced Canadian team on the July Cup board by a distance.

Montréal Canadiens

The Canadiens are the oldest club in the NHL and the most decorated: founded in 1909, a founding member of the league in 1917 and winners of 24 Stanley Cups. The last came in 1993, which is also the last Cup won by any Canadian team. The rebuild has turned quickly. Montréal finished third in the Atlantic on 106 points last season, level with Tampa Bay and behind only on regulation wins, with Nick Suzuki on 101 points and Cole Caufield on 51 goals.

Ottawa Senators

Today’s Senators joined as an expansion team in 1992 and have never won the Cup. The original Senators, a separate franchise that left Ottawa in 1934, won four in the NHL era. The modern club’s deepest run ended in the 2007 Final against Anaheim. Last season it took the East’s second wild card on 99 points, four clear of Washington. Tim Stützle led the team with 83.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto have won 13 Stanley Cups, second only to Montréal, but none since 1967. That is the longest active drought in the league. The franchise played the NHL’s first season in 1917-18 as the Arenas and became the Maple Leafs in 1927. Last season was the worst in years: 78 points, 28th overall and no playoffs, with William Nylander leading the team on 79 points. The Leafs drafted Gavin McKenna first overall in June, and he sat second favourite for the Calder on the July board.

Vancouver Canucks

Vancouver joined in 1970 and is one of 10 current franchises without a Stanley Cup, despite three trips to the Final. They lost in 1982, then twice in seven games, in 1994 and 2011. Last season was the league’s low point: 58 points, 32nd of 32 and a goal difference of minus 100. Elias Pettersson led the team on 51 points after captain Quinn Hughes was traded to Minnesota in December 2025.

Winnipeg Jets

Winnipeg’s history now covers two clubs. The original Jets came in from the WHA in 1979 and left for Phoenix in 1996, and today’s team arrived in 2011 from Atlanta, where it had played as the Thrashers. On 24 September 2026 the NHL merged the two into one record book, so Dale Hawerchuk is again the franchise leader in goals and points. Neither version has reached a Stanley Cup Final. Last season Winnipeg missed the playoffs on 82 points, eight short of the Western line, despite 103 points from Mark Scheifele.

NHL divisions and conferences

The four NHL divisions have carried their current names since the 2013-14 realignment. The Eastern Conference holds the Atlantic and the Metropolitan. The Western Conference holds the Central and the Pacific. Each has eight teams.

Divisions matter most in April. The top three teams in each division qualify for the playoffs automatically, and the two best remaining records in each conference take the wild cards, making 16 in all. In the first round each division winner plays a wild card, while second and third place in each division meet. The live race, including every team’s gap to the wild-card line, is on our NHL playoff picture.

The map has moved three times in five years. Seattle joined the Pacific in 2021-22, which pushed Arizona into the Central. When Arizona’s hockey operations moved to Salt Lake City in 2024, Utah took that Central spot. And the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season produced a one-off North Division, the only time all seven Canadian teams have played in the same division.

The Original Six

The Original Six are the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montréal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs: the only six teams in the NHL for 25 seasons, from 1942-43 to 1966-67. The name is misleading. They were not the league’s first six. The NHL began in 1917 with four clubs, had ten by 1926-27 and shrank again as teams folded through the Depression and the Second World War, the Brooklyn Americans last of all in 1942.

Montréal dominated the era with 10 Cups in 25 seasons, Toronto won 9 and Detroit 5, while Boston and the Rangers won none. It ended with the 1967 expansion, which doubled the league overnight: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, St. Louis, the Minnesota North Stars and the California Seals all joined for 1967-68.

How the NHL got to 32: expansion and relocation

The league has grown from four clubs to 32 in a handful of waves, and five of today’s franchises started life in another city. Winnipeg is a special case, explained below the tables.

The newest team is the Utah Mammoth. In 2024 the league made the Arizona Coyotes franchise inactive, and its players and hockey staff moved to a new team in Salt Lake City. It played its first season as Utah Hockey Club and took the Mammoth name in May 2025. Seattle, in 2021-22, and Vegas, in 2017-18, were the two expansions before it. The Coyotes were themselves the original Winnipeg Jets, who left for Phoenix in 1996.

Those original Jets now belong to today’s Winnipeg club. The current team moved from Atlanta in 2011, where it had played as the Thrashers since 1999. On 24 September 2026 the NHL folded the original Jets’ 1979-96 seasons and the Thrashers’ years into one Jets history and left the Coyotes’ 1996-2024 seasons out of it. That is why the tables above list Winnipeg in the NHL since 1979-80.

A 33rd team is on the table. In June 2026 the league opened a formal process to examine Houston or Austin, Texas, and when the Board of Governors met on 22 September, commissioner Gary Bettman said no decisions had been made. The league expects to know more by December.

NHL arenas

Every arena in the tables above is the club’s 2026-27 home venue as listed on the NHL schedule, and several carry new names. Tampa Bay now plays at Benchmark International Arena, formerly Amalie Arena. Philadelphia plays at Xfinity Mobile Arena, formerly the Wells Fargo Center, Minnesota at Grand Casino Arena, formerly the Xcel Energy Center, and Carolina at Lenovo Center, formerly PNC Arena. Madison Square Garden, opened in 1968, is the oldest building in the league. The Islanders’ UBS Arena, opened in 2021, is among the newest. In Canada, the Bell Centre in Montréal draws the biggest crowds in the NHL, and Calgary moves out of the Saddledome and into Scotia Place for the 2027-28 season.

Betting on NHL teams

Most team bets are futures. You back a club in September and settle in April or June. The main markets are the Stanley Cup winner, the conference and division winners, regular-season points totals, where you bet over or under a line such as 95.5 points, and a simple yes or no on making the playoffs. The Cup board is the deepest of them and moves every week; our Stanley Cup odds page carries the current prices for all 32 teams, and the futures betting guide explains how these markets settle.

Team prices move on three things. Injuries come first, above all to a starting goalie, and our daily NHL injury report tracks them. Form is next, which is what our weekly power rankings measure beyond the standings. Then there is the race itself, in the playoff picture. Player-led markets such as the Hart and the Art Ross sit on our NHL awards odds and scoring leaders pages.

In Ontario and Alberta you can shop these markets across licensed sportsbooks; elsewhere the provincial lottery platforms carry a narrower range, as our NHL betting hub explains. These are the NHL sportsbooks we rate for Canadians, listed by province, with the full comparison on our NHL betting sites page:

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