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2024–25 NHL season

National Hockey League season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The 2024–25 NHL season was the 108th season of operation of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season started on October 4, 2024, when the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils played the first of two games in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of the 2024 NHL Global Series. The Stanley Cup playoffs began on April 19, 2025 and ended on June 17, with the Florida Panthers winning back-to-back Stanley Cups. This season was the first for the expansion Utah Hockey Club, who were established with the hockey assets of the Arizona Coyotes following the latter team's deactivation.

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“2024–25 NHL season” enters the record as national Hockey League season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what season, National and Hockey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around season, National and Hockey.
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“2024–25 NHL season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, season, National and Hockey provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “2024–25 NHL season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.