User:PAVA11/Ice hockey leagues
This page is part of Ice Hockey WikiProject and is intended to serve as a supplement to WP:NHOCKEY, a guideline to be used to help evaluate whether an ice hockey player or coach is presumed to be notable. Points 1 through 4 of NHOCKEY refer to specific leagues (professional, minor, and amateur) in evaluating whether or not a player is likely to be notable. Listed below (and under each of the first four points of NHOCKEY) are leagues that are considered to be relevant to each point.
NHOCKEY #1
[edit]- Played one or more games in an existing or defunct top professional league such as the National Hockey League, World Hockey Association, Elitserien, SM-liiga, or Kontinental Hockey League;
Defunct international leagues at a top-level of competition
[edit]- Alpenliga (defunct) – Austria, Italy, Slovenia
- Eastern European Hockey League (defunct) – Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
- International Professional Hockey League (defunct) – Canada, United States
- Interliga (defunct) – Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia
- World Hockey Association (defunct) – Canada, United States
- Pacific Coast Hockey Association (defunct) – Canada, United States
Top-level leagues (national and international)
[edit]Note: The leagues ranked #2 through #23 are according to the IIHF's ranking of European leagues [1]. After that, the order was derived using the 2010 IIHF World Ranking for the country of the respective leagues [2]. International leagues are roughly placed.
- National Hockey League
- Kontinental Hockey League
Finland – SM-liiga
Czech Republic – Czech Extraliga
Sweden – Elitserien
Slovakia – Slovak Extraliga
Switzerland – National League A
Germany – Deutsche Eishockey Liga
- Belarusian Extraliga
Latvia – Latvian Hockey League
Denmark – AL-Bank Ligaen
- Austrian Hockey League
Kazakhstan – Kazakhstani Championship
Norway – GET-ligaen
France – Ligue Magnus
Slovenia – Slovenian Ice Hockey Championship
Italy – Serie A
Hungary – OB I bajnokság, MOL Liga
Poland – Polska Liga Hokejowa
Netherlands – Eredivisie
Ukraine – Ukranian Hockey League
United Kingdom – Elite Ice Hockey League
Romania – Romanian Hockey League
- Asia League Ice Hockey (Japan is home to four of the seven ALIH teams, and is ranked higher in the IIHF ranking than Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Romania, already listed above. Therefore, it could roughly be inferred that the Asia League is somewhere in this area of a league ranking)
Lithuania – Lithuania Hockey League (Lithuania is ranked higher than the Netherlands by the IIHF)
Croatia – Croatian Ice Hockey Championship
Estonia – Meistriliiga
Serbia – Serbian Hockey League
Spain – Superliga Española de Hockey Hielo
Bulgaria – Bulgarian Hockey League
Mexico – Mexican Hockey League
Australia – Australian Ice Hockey League
Turkey – Turkish Ice Hockey Super League
Belgium – Belgian Hockey League
Iceland – Icelandic Hockey League
Israel – Israel Ice Hockey Federation
New Zealand – New Zealand Ice Hockey League
Ireland – Irish Ice Hockey League
South Africa – South African Ice Hockey Association (league?)
North Korea – North Korea Championship
Luxembourg – league?
Greece – Greek Ice Hockey Championship
Mongolia – Mongolia Hockey League
United Arab Emirates – Emirates Ice Hockey League
Bosnia and Herzegovina – BiH Hockey League
Armenia – Armenian Hockey League
Leagues of additional countries countries that are members of the IIHF (not ranked):
Chinese Taipei – Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League
Malaysia – Subang Jaya Ice Hockey League (associate member)
Singapore – Singapore National Ice Hockey League (associate member)
Thailand – Thai World Hockey League
Additional leagues of countries that are not members of the IIHF (not ranked):
Defunct top-level national leagues
[edit]Canada - Western Canada Hockey League
Canada - National Hockey Association
Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League[1]
East Germany – DDR-Oberliga
England – English League (ice hockey)
England – English National League
Finland – SM-sarja
Germany – Ice hockey Bundesliga[2]
Germany – Oberliga (ice hockey)[3]
Japan – Japan Ice Hockey League
Russia – Russian Superleague
Russia – International Hockey League
Scotland – Scottish National League (1932–1954)
Soviet Union – Soviet Championship League
United Kingdom – British Hockey League
United Kingdom – British National League (1954–1960)
United Kingdom – Ice Hockey Superleague
United States - Western Pennsylvania Hockey League
Yugoslavia – Yugoslav Ice Hockey League[4]
NHOCKEY #2
[edit]- Played one or more games in an amateur league considered, through lack of a professional league, the highest level of competition extant, such as the 19th century Amateur Hockey Association or the Soviet League;
Amateur leagues that served as the highest level of competition
[edit]Canada – Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournaments
Canada – Amateur Hockey Association of Canada
Canada – Canadian Amateur Hockey League
Canada – Federal Amateur Hockey League
Canada – Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association
NHOCKEY #3
[edit]- Played at least 100 games in fully professional minor leagues such as the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League, the ECHL, the Mestis, the HockeyAllsvenskan or other such league;
Fully professional minor leagues
[edit]Canada – American Hockey League, ECHL, International Hockey League (1929–1936) (defunct), International Hockey League (1945–2001) (defunct)
Finland – Mestis
Sweden – HockeyAllsvenskan
USA – American Hockey League, ECHL, International Hockey League (1929–1936) (defunct), International Hockey League (1945–2001) (defunct)
NHOCKEY #4
[edit]- Achieved preeminent honours (all-time top ten career scorer, won a major award given by the league, first team all-star, All-American) in a lower minor league such as the Central Hockey League or the United Hockey League, in a major junior league such as those of the Canadian Hockey League, or in a major collegiate hockey league (Note: merely playing in a major junior league or major collegiate hockey is not enough to satisfy inclusion requirements);
Low-level minor leagues
[edit]Major junior leagues
[edit](of the Canadian Hockey League)
Major collegiate leagues
[edit](of NCAA Division I)
- Atlantic Hockey
- Central Collegiate Hockey Association
- College Hockey America
- ECAC Hockey
- Hockey East
- Western Collegiate Hockey Association
- Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (defunct)
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Czechoslovak League was the highest-level in Czechoslovakia until the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with each country starting a new league.
- ^ The Bundesliga was the highest-level in West Germany from 1957. After German reunification it served as the top league in unified Germany until 1994.
- ^ The Oberliga was the highest-level in Germany from 1948 to 1958; it is currently the third-level of the German ice hockey tier.
- ^ The Yugoslav League operated from 1939 until SFRY Yugoslavia was dissolved in 1991; that same year, new countries Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia began their own leagues.