query: Dangal premiered in Canada in 2016.

pos: Dangal (film) Dangal ( Wrestling competition ) is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari . Produced by Walt Disney Pictures , Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures , it stars Aamir Khan as Mahavir Singh Phogat , an amateur wrestler , who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to be world-class wrestlers , both of who go on to win medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games . Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra play the older selves of the sisters while Sakshi Tanwar play their mother and Aparshakti Khurana , their cousin .   The development of the film began in early 2013 when Tiwari began writing the screenplay before signing Khan for the film . Set primarily in the Indian State of Haryana , principal photography commenced in September 2015 in the neighbouring Punjab . Satyajit Pande served as the cinematographer and Ballu Saluja as the editor . Pritam scored the film 's background music and for its soundtrack , lyrics for which were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya . Kripa Shankar Bishnoi , a coach with the Indian women 's wrestling team , trained Khan and the cast for the wrestling sequences .   After a North America premiere on 21 December 2016 , Dangal was released worldwide on 23 December opening to positive response with critics ; praise centered on the film 's `` honest '' depiction of a real-life story and Khan 's performance . It was also screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 . At the 62nd Filmfare Awards , it won four awards : Best Film , Best Director ( Tiwari ) , Best Actor ( Khan ) and Best Action ( Shyam ) . The film performed equally well commercially and as of 29 May , it stands as the highest-grossing Indian film having collected over 1,700 crore , of which close to 1,000 crore was earned in China , where it has emerged as one of the top 30 highest-grossers of all time .

neg: Yukon general election, 2016 The 38th general election in Yukon , Canada , took place on November 7 , 2016 to return members to the 34th Yukon Legislative Assembly .   The election was fought over issues relating to the economy , the environment , First Nations reconciliation , fracking , and the merits of a territorial carbon tax . The incumbent Yukon Party government , led by Darrell Pasloski , was defeated by the third party Liberal Party of Sandy Silver , ending 14 years of Yukon Party rule .   Premier Darrell Pasloski lost his own seat .

neg: O Canada (TV series) O Canada is a Canadian-American animated television anthology series , broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network . O Canada was the first Canadian cartoon series to air on Cartoon Network .   Shown mainly on Sunday nights ( early Monday mornings ) at 12:00 midnight ET , O Canada featured a selection of animated shorts from Canada , mostly from the archives of the National Film Board of Canada . Some of the animated shorts featured were part of the NFB 's Canada Vignettes collection of shorts first produced for CBC Television .   The title of the series originated from the name of Canada 's national anthem , O Canada .   One of the notable shorts featured in this series was Bob 's Birthday , which would later serve as the basis for Comedy Central / Global Television Network 's Bob and Margaret series , which would debut the following year . Despite its time slot , Bob 's Birthday was censored with one scene , that featured Bob fully bottomless , edited with a maple leaf electronically superimposed over his genitalia .

neg: Degrassi (franchise) Degrassi is a Canadian drama franchise that follows the lives of a group of teenagers who lived on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto , Ontario . The five main series are The Kids of Degrassi Street , Degrassi Junior High , Degrassi High , Degrassi : The Next Generation and Degrassi : Next Class .   The early Degrassi series were produced by the small production company owned by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler , Playing With Time Inc. . The recent version of Degrassi , produced by Epitome Pictures , aired on MTV Canada and on VRAK.TV ( dubbed in French ) in Canada and was simultaneously broadcast on TeenNick ( and in syndication ) in the United States . Degrassi : The Next Generations '' 's eighth season aired on BBC Switch in the United Kingdom .   The second incarnation of The Next Generation , Degrassi : Next Class '' , is jointly produced by Netflix and Epitome ( a subsidiary of DHX Media ) . The show began airing in January 2016 on Netflix internationally and on Family ( F2N ) in Canada .

neg: Great Canadian Theatre Company The Great Canadian Theatre Company , known for short as GCTC , is a professional theatre company based in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada . It was established in 1975 by a group of professors and graduate students at Carleton University . Riding a wave of cultural nationalism , founders Robin Matthews , Larry McDonald , Bill Law , Greg Reid and Lois Shannon envisioned a theatre company that would produce only Canadian plays , especially those with social and political relevance . Driven by a dream to place Canadian stories and Canadian history front and centre in our country 's universities and theatres , the company launched its first production in August 1975 .   The group has its origins in a season of Canadian theatre produced by the Sock 'n' Buskin Theatre Company at Carleton University . From Carleton , the company moved to a converted firehall in Ottawa South ( presently the Ottawa South Community Centre ) and then , in 1982 , to the Gladstone Theatre on Gladstone Avenue . In September 2007 the company moved into a larger venue called the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre   The Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre , which includes a 262-seat mainstage theatre , a flexible black box studio theatre , and two spacious lobbies , has allowed GCTC to expand its community-based activities . More than 35,000 people visit the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre every year to see productions by GCTC and other live performing arts companies , for concerts such as the Acoustic Waves music series , to visit the Lorraine Fritzi Yale Art Gallery , rent the facility , or to enjoy local homemade fare at the Viva Loca Café .   The September 2007 issue of ( Cult ) ure Magazine described the GCTC as `` Ottawa 's pre-eminent promoter of Canadian theatrical content . ''   Among playwrights whose works have been performed by the company are :  Jean-Marc Dalpé  David French  Linda Griffiths  Wendy Lill  Ann-Marie MacDonald  Arthur Milner  Morris Panych  Judith Thompson  Michel Tremblay  George F. Walker

neg: Westfest Westfest is a free arts festival in Ottawa , Ontario , formerly taking place in Westboro Village during the second weekend of June , but now taking place in the Laroche Park , in the Mechanicsville area of Ottawa , the first weekend in June . The festival brings in over 300 artists , 150 volunteers and 40 staff over the weekend and features only Canadian talent . Westfest has been dedicated to bringing into the spotlight up and coming Canadian talent , while also featuring some of the best known names in the scene . The festival was founded in 2003 by Elaina Martin .  The range of artistic disciplines includes music , contemporary dance , visual art , media art , performance art , spoken word , poetry and fiction readings , Aboriginal art forms , and children 's entertainment .   The lineup for the Westfest 2016 has been announced and is aptly titled `` Homemade Jam . ''

neg: Searchers (film) Searchers ( Maliglutit ) is a 2016 Inuktitut-language Canadian drama film directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq , which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival . Based in part on the 1956 John Ford film The Searchers , the film is set in Northern Canada in 1913 . It centres on Kuanana ( Benjamin Kunuk ) , a man who returns from hunting to discover that much of his family has been killed and his wife and daughter have been kidnapped .   The film was shot in Nunavut with an entirely Inuit cast , and with contributions from a local crew . The production was troubled by extreme cold . It has received positive reviews in Canada , and was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards , including Best Motion Picture .

neg: Bloomberg TV Canada Bloomberg TV Canada is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned in whole or majority-owned by Channel Zero .   The channel broadcasts programming focused primarily on the coverage of international business markets and financial news and current events sourced from Bloomberg Television . The channel launched on November 17 , 2015 by replacing the American Bloomberg channel in Canada .

neg: Undercover (2016 TV series) Undercover is a six-part BBC television drama series co-produced with BBC America which was first broadcast beginning 3 April 2016 . The series premiered in the United States as a six-hour miniseries on 16 and 17 November 2016 on BBC America ; it began its run on the CBC in Canada in August ( it has aired Mondays at 9pm/9 :30 NT , premiering 22 August 2016 . ) and on Canal + in France since January 2017 .

neg: Degrassi (season 14) The fourteenth and final season of Degrassi , a Canadian serial teen drama television series , premiered on October 28 , 2014 . Although only four school years have passed in the story timeline since season six , season fourteen is set during the final weeks of the spring semester in the years it aired . Writers have been able to use a semi-floating timeline , so that the issues depicted are modern for their viewers . This season again depicts the lives of a group of high school freshmen , sophomores , juniors , seniors and graduates as they deal with some of the challenges and issues that teenagers face such as teenage pregnancy , dysfunctional families , sexism , arson , sexting , sexual identity , miscarriages , anxiety disorders , drug use , child abuse , abstinence , and gang violence .   The fourteenth season was announced on November 13 , 2013 . However , MTV Canada and TeenNick did not announce picking up the season until a month before the first episode was scheduled to air . Filming for the season commenced on April 11 , 2014 at Epitome Studios in Toronto . Filming continued into August , with a break before filming the final four episodes of the season in order to give Epitome the opportunity to start filming episodes for the first season of their new series . Filming for this season completed on October 6 , 2014 . On June 4 , 2015 , it was announced that Degrassi would no longer air on TeenNick or MTV Canada following the fourteenth season . However , on June 9 , 2015 , it was announced that Family Channel and Netflix had picked up the series and will air 20 new episodes in 2016 , renaming the show Degrassi : Next Class . This season featured the telenovela/soap opera format used in previous seasons , airing new episodes five days a week for the last two weeks of the season .

neg: Godiva's Godiva 's is a Canadian television comedy-drama series created by Michael MacLennan with Julia Keatley of Keatley Entertainment . It debuted on Bravo ! and Citytv in 2005 and was celebrated for its intelligent , fast-paced depiction of young Canadians in the restaurant industry . The series was nominated for numerous Gemini Awards including Best Series .   Although the series was critically well received , after completing a successful two-season run in 2006 , it was not renewed for a third season by CHUM broadcasting .

neg: Gerry Dee Gerry Dee ( born December 31 , 1968 in Scarborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian .

neg: The Comedian (2016 film) The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Lewis Friedman , Richard LaGravenese , Art Linson , and Jeff Ross . The film stars Robert De Niro , Leslie Mann , Danny DeVito , Edie Falco , Veronica Ferres , Charles Grodin , Cloris Leachman , Patti LuPone and Harvey Keitel .   The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 11 , 2016 and was released on December 9 , 2016 , by Sony Pictures Classics . The film opened to negative reviews from critics .

neg: This Life (2015 TV series) This Life is a Canadian television drama series . It premiered on October 5 , 2015 on CBC . The series is based on the French Canadian series Nouvelle adresse , created by Richard Blaimert . On March 31 , 2016 the CBC confirmed the series had been renewed for a second season , to premiere in Fall 2016 . The show was cancelled on January 24 , 2017 .

neg: Zoink'd Zoink 'd is a children 's television game show that started on March 15 , 2012 , and ended on August 20 , 2013 , appearing on Canadian cable channel YTV . The show is produced by Pivotal Media , based in based Toronto . Hosted by Adam D. Christie , the show spotlights the `` weird and wacky '' talent of adults , who are then rated by a panel of judges , made up of four children . Broadcast on Saturday evenings , the show targets an audience which includes children and families .

neg: Just for Laughs: Gags Just for Laughs : Gags ( in French , Juste pour rire : Gags ) is a Canadian silent comedy/hidden camera reality television show that is under the Just for Laughs brand . It is based on the similar American series Candid Camera .  The series is also on YouTube .  In December 26 , 2000 , JFL : Gags began airing on French Canadian network Canal D . In the following years , the show was picked up by TVA , CBC and The Comedy Network in Canada , BBC1 in the UK , TF1 in France and ABC and Telemundo in the United States ; the Canadian version ( unlike the ones produced for ABC ) aired in the United States in first-run syndication starting in the fall of 2015 and ended in February 2016 .   The series uses a hidden camera format , playing pranks on unsuspecting subjects while hidden cameras capture the subjects ' responses ; each episode presents multiple gags . While some segments have included brief dialogue , most do not contain any sound or dialogue ; the audio is replaced with sound effects , a laugh track , and public domain music . Most segments are filmed in Quebec City , Montreal and Vancouver , while some have been filmed in Mexico . British and Asian versions have been produced in the UK and Singapore , respectively . In 2011 the show spawned a spinoff , Just Kidding , which consists exclusively of kids playing pranks on adults .   With its silent format and no translation required , Just for Laughs : Gags has been purchased for use in over 100 countries throughout the world as well as in airports and by airlines . Reactions to the gags range from `` inane '' to cross-culturally funny . The same distributors also distribute Surprise Sur Prise , a similar show .   In March 2011 , Just for Laughs Gags entered into a partnership with Montreal-based , entertainment site , Videobash.com and now have their own devoted channel there . ( No video has been posted as of this writing . )

neg: Shaw Multicultural Channel __ NOTOC __   Shaw Multicultural Channel ( or simply SMC ) is a multicultural cable television community channel in Canada , offering programming in 25 different languages . It is owned by Shaw Communications , and is available on cable systems in the Vancouver and Calgary markets . The channel operates on digital cable channel 116 in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia , except Delta , where it is seen on analog cable channel 51 ; and on cable channel 89 in the Calgary Region .   The channel was launched in 1979 as Rogers Multicultural Channel , under the ownership of Rogers Communications , and was available only in the Vancouver market on Rogers Cable . Shaw took over ownership and renamed the channel in 2000 following an asset swap with Rogers , which also saw Shaw become the primary cable television service provider in British Columbia . Service was subsequently extended to the Calgary market .   Following Shaw 's acquisition of the Global Television Network , Global News launched a Mandarin version of Global National from January 23 , 2012-June 30 , 2016 , seen weeknights on Shaw Multicultural Channel in Vancouver , British Columbia and Calgary , Alberta .

neg: Big Brother Canada (season 5) Big Brother Canada 5 is the fifth season of the Canadian reality television series Big Brother Canada . It is based upon the Dutch series of the same name , which gained notoriety in 1999 and 2000 . It was produced by Endemol USA , and Insight Productions . The season premiered on Global on March 15 , 2017 and ended after 69 days -- the shortest season to date by one day -- on May 18 , 2017 , where returning houseguest Kevin Martin was crowned the winner , and Karen Singbeil the runner-up .   The series revolves around different strangers living in a house together with no communication with the outside world . They are constantly filmed during their time in the house with live feeds on the Internet and have no communication with the outside world . One HouseGuest , known as the Head of Household , has the task of nominating two of their fellow HouseGuests for eviction . The Power of Veto can be used to save a nominee . The HouseGuests then vote to evict one of the nominees , with the HouseGuest who receives the most votes being evicted from the house . When only two HouseGuests remain , nine of previously evicted houseguests decide which of them will win the grand prize of $ 100,000 , a 2017 Toyota 86 , as well as a $ 30,000 home makeover from The Brick . The runner-up receives a $ 20,000 cash prize .

neg: Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history This page describes the production history of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival .   The Stratford Shakespeare Festival ( formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Stratford Festival of Canada ) is a summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford , Ontario . Theatre-goers , actors , and playwrights flock to Stratford to take part -- many of the greatest Canadian , American and British actors have played roles at Stratford . It was one of the first and is still one of the most prominent arts festivals in Canada .   The Festival 's primary mandate is to present productions of Shakespeare 's plays , but it also produces a wide variety of theatre from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals to contemporary works . By 2017 , only three of the 14 productions were based on Shakespeare 's works . The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Stratford Festival since its inception .   On February 17 , 2015 , AP News reported that the Stratford Shakespeare Festival plans to film all of Shakespeare 's plays .

neg: Egale Canada Egale Canada ( formerly Equality for Gays And Lesbians Everywhere ) is an advocacy organization founded in 1986 to advance equality for Canadian lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) people and their families , across Canada .   The organization 's current executive director is former Toronto politician Helen Kennedy . Past executive directors have included Gilles Marchildon , John Fisher and Kaj Hasselriis . Kennedy is the first woman to head the organization .

neg: Canada (band) Canada is an American indie folk-pop music group from Ann Arbor , Michigan . Its songs are generally acoustic and feature guitars , drums , cellos , glockenspiels , melodicas , rhodes piano , organ and accordions . The group is known for its group vocals and harmonies and energetic live shows where members switch instruments between songs .   `` With a blend of pop , folk , and country , Canada keeps an even keel with amazing melodies and even more engaging instrumentation , never becoming tiresome or trite in its mission to craft the perfect pop song ... They have made what could very well be the best pop album to come out of the ever-fruitful Detroit music scene in 2006 , and considering the quality of the competition , that 's no small praise . ''   The band , composed of long-time friends , formed in late 2004 and self-released the six song How Dare You EP in July 2005 . Soon after , they were approached by indie Michigan label Quite Scientific and soon signed with them to record a full length album . Recording took place during the fall and winter of 2005 in Lansing , Michigan on a soundboard originally used to mix portions of the second and third Star Wars films .   The band released its first album , This Cursed House , in June 2006 . The album became the No. 1 most-added album in college radio for June 20 , 2006 , and later climbed to No. 13 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 ( CMJ New Music Report , Issue 971 ) .   Canada proceeded to embark on a series of tours with friends Page France ( Suicide Squeeze ) , Saturday Looks Good To Me ( Polyvinyl ) Headlights ( Polyvinyl ) , and Margot and the Nuclear So and So 's . Joe , Ryan , and Aaron ( Shaul ) became brief members of Saturday Looks Good To Me during this time , playing bass , drums , and glockenspiel respectively . Ryan later became a more permanent member with the group and toured with them as their drummer during their 2007 US and European tours . Canada also performed at the 2006 Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana , the 2006/7/8 CMJ Music Marathon in New York City and SXSW 2006/7 in Austin .   Canada embarked on its longest ( 8 week ) nationwide tour in the summer of 2007 . The band was prepping the release of their second full-length ( which would have been called Put Singing Birds Into Your Messy Hair ) , when creative , scheduling , and recording issues put a halt to production in late 2008 . The band currently has no plans to re-unite , despite several offers for reunion concerts in Southeastern Michigan , however their second record may become available digitally sometime in the future .


query: The Big Six are uninvolved with ice hockey.

pos: Ice hockey Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent 's net to score points . The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical , with teams usually consisting of six players each : one goaltender , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team .   Ice hockey is most popular in Canada , central and eastern Europe , Scandinavia , and the northern regions of the United States . Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada , where the modern version of the sport was created , and enjoys immense popularity ; alongside Canada , hockey is the most popular winter sport in Finland , Latvia , the Czech Republic , Sweden , Slovakia , Belarus and Switzerland . In North America , the National Hockey League ( NHL ) is the highest level for men 's hockey and the most popular . The Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe . The International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) is the formal governing body for international ice hockey , with the IIHF managing international tournaments and maintaining the IIHF World Ranking . Worldwide , there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries .   Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and elsewhere . These games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed , such as `` shinny '' and `` ice polo '' . The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada , most notably in Montreal , where the first indoor hockey game was played on March 3 , 1875 . Some characteristics of that game , such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck , have been retained to this day . Amateur ice hockey leagues began in the 1880s , and professional ice hockey originated around 1900 . The Stanley Cup , emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy , was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion and later became the championship trophy of the NHL . In the early 1900s , the Canadian rules were adopted by the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace , the precursor of the IIHF and the sport was played for the first time in the Olympics in the Olympic Games of 1920 .   In international competitions , the national teams of six countries ( the `` Big Six '' ) predominate : Canada , Czech Republic , Finland , Russia , Sweden and the United States . Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in men 's competition at the Olympics , only six medals were not awarded to one of those countries . In the annual Ice Hockey World Championships , 177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations . Teams outside the `` Big Six '' have won only five medals in either competition since 1953 : All 12 Women 's Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women 's Championships medals have been awarded to one of these six countries , and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either the Canadian national team or the United States national team .   In Canada , the United States , and some European countries it is known simply as hockey ; the name `` ice hockey '' is used in places where `` hockey '' more often refers to field hockey , such as South America , Asia , Africa , Australasia , and some European countries . In Russia and Ukraine , where `` hockey '' can also refer to bandy , ice hockey is often called `` hockey with puck '' .

pos: Big Six (ice hockey) The Big Six in men 's international ice hockey are the six national teams that have been dominant in competitive play throughout the history of international hockey and especially since the 1950s . The group is composed of the North American countries of Canada and the United States , and four European countries : Czech Republic , Finland , Russia and Sweden . Before the end of the Cold War , the Soviet Union/CIS and Czechoslovakia held the places of Russia and the Czech Republic . The four European members are sometimes referred to as the `` European Big Four '' or `` Big Four '' , especially to distinguish them from the North American teams .   Out of the 204 IIHF World Championships medals awarded , only twenty have been won by teams outside the Big Six and only five of those have been won since 1953 ( four by Slovakia , one by Switzerland ) . Of the 69 Olympic ice hockey medals awarded , only 6 have not been won by a Big Six team .

neg: IIHF World U18 Championship The IIHF U18 World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-18 ice hockey teams from around the world . The tournament is usually played in April and is organized according to a system similar to Ice Hockey World Championships and World Junior Ice Hockey Championships . The United States has dominated the tournament with ten championships followed by Finland , Canada and Russia with three . Countries generally send their best team to this tournament , however , several top North American and European amateurs may not participate as in April both the United States Hockey League ( USHL ) and Canadian Hockey League ( CHL ) are still involved in league playoffs . Players who do not participate in the World Championship due to their respective league postseasons have the alternative of representing their country in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in August .   __ TOC __

neg: European Trophy European Trophy ( previously named Nordic Trophy between 2006 and 2009 ) was an annually held ice hockey tournament , traditionally composed of teams from the higher-level ice hockey leagues in countries across Europe . It was generally considered to be a preseason tournament , although some games were played mid-season . With 32 participating teams from seven different countries in 2013 , the European Trophy was at the time the biggest active ice hockey tournament in Europe . From the 2014 -- 15 season , the European Trophy would be replaced by the Champions Hockey League , an IIHF-organized tournament .   Sweden and Finland always participated , and they were the only two countries participating when the tournament was named `` Nordic Trophy '' . The tournament began in 2006 under the name `` Nordic Trophy '' with eight teams , four from Sweden and four from Finland . In 2010 , several teams from other European countries agreed to join the tournament , which changed name to European Trophy as a result . By the 2013 tournament , eight countries had been represented : Sweden , Finland , Austria , Czech Republic , Germany , Slovakia , Switzerland , and Norway . No team ever won the tournament more than one time .

neg: British National League (1954–60) The British National League was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom . It was founded in 1954 by the merger of the English National League and the Scottish National League , due to a declining number of teams , as many ice rinks previously fielding several sides chose to cut back .   After the 1954/5 season , all the Scottish teams with the exception of Paisley Pirates quit professional ice hockey , and the league was never able to regain its strength . It collapsed in 1960 , after which no ice hockey league operated in the UK until the formation of the Scottish League in 1962 and its successor the Northern League in 1967 .

neg: United States Hockey League The United States Hockey League ( USHL ) is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States . The USHL has 17 member teams located in the Midwestern United States , consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger . The USHL is strictly amateur , allowing former players to compete in NCAA college hockey .   The Chicago Steel won the 2016 -- 17 Clark Cup Championship , beating the Western Conference Champion Sioux City Musketeers 3-games-to-2 . The Musketeers won the Anderson Cup as the 2016 -- 17 regular season champions , their third in franchise history .

neg: USA Hockey USA Hockey ( prior to June 1991 , Amateur Hockey Association of the United States or AHAUS ) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for organized amateur Ice hockey in the United States and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation . Founded on Oct. 29 , 1937 , in New York City , New York , the organization is based in Colorado Springs , Colorado , and has a total membership exceeding one million . Its mission is to promote the growth of hockey in America and provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging , developing , advancing and administering the sport .   USA Hockey programs support and develop players , coaches , officials , and facilities . In January 2009 , the organization launched the American Development Model , which - for the first time ever - provided associations nationwide with a blueprint for optimal athlete development . USA Hockey also has junior and adult hockey programs that provide opportunities for players of all ability levels . In addition , the organization supports a disabled hockey program .   USA Hockey provides certification programs for coaches and officials to ensure education standards are met that coincide with the level of play . A large focus is put on parent education with equipment needs , rules of the game and parental roles in youth sports among common topics .   Members of the organization receive a subscription to USA Hockey Magazine . At 412,892 subscribers , it is the most widely circulated hockey publication in the world . Members also receive insurance coverage and access to participate in national championships and player development camps .

neg: Laurentide Ice Sheet The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers , including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States , multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs -- from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present . < ref  name = `` ICS2013 '' > </ref> The last advance covered most of northern North America between c. 95,000 and c. 20,000 years before the present day , and among other geomorphological effects , gouged out the five Great Lakes and the hosts of smaller lakes of the Canadian shield . These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories , through most of northern Canada , and the upper Midwestern United States ( Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Michigan ) to the Finger Lakes , through Lake Champlain and Lake George areas of New York , across the northern Appalachians into and through all of New England and Nova Scotia . At times , the ice sheet 's southern margin included the present-day sites of northeastern coastal towns and cities such as Portsmouth , New Hampshire , Boston , New York City , and Great Lakes coastal cities and towns as far south as Chicago and St. Louis , Missouri -- and then followed quite precisely the present course of the Missouri River up to the northern slopes of the Cypress Hills , beyond which it merged with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet . The ice coverage extended approximately as far south as 38 degrees latitude in the mid-continent .

neg: Big Six energy suppliers The Big Six are the United Kingdom 's largest energy suppliers , supplying gas and electricity to over 50 million homes and businesses in Britain , with over 90 % share of domestic customers . `` Supplier '' is meant by the business of buying wholesale power ( or gas ) , paying network and government policy costs and charges , and charging the customers of that supplier , for their electricity ( or gas ) . The assets of a supplier , which is a separate licensed business , are its people , and its offices . The business of four of the big energy Suppliers , including of their wider company groups , does not entail owning , or running , any actual network assets - underground cables , overhead lines , or pipes - to physically deliver electricity or gas . The two exceptions to this , are the two big Scottish Supplier firms , whose wider company groups do own some network assets .   Confusingly , the term `` Big Six '' has recently been used prominently in the British media to refer , instead , to Britain 's energy network firms such as UK Power Networks ( which are generally independent of the biggest six British energy suppliers ) . There has also been a tendency in the media to wrongly refer to electricity network firms as `` electricity suppliers '' , thus sowing further confusion and misunderstanding ,   The `` Big Six '' as the term has most often been used , tends to be a reference to the oldest British electricity companies ( which are all also involved in the retail Supply of gas ) plus British Gas . This comprises ( 1 ) British Gas ( owned by UK firm Centrica which is listed on the LSE ) , ( 2 ) EDF Energy ( owned by French firm Électricité de France which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange , ( 3 ) npower , ( 4 ) E.ON UK ( each German-owned ) , ( 5 ) Scottish Power ( Spanish-owned ) , and ( 6 ) SSE ( listed on the LSE ) .   According to SERIS , the generation businesses of the ` Big Six ' energy firms amount to around three-quarters of British generating capacity . Three out of the ` Big Ten ' generators in the UK can probably still be categorised as majority-owned by British shareholders ; the other seven are listed firms that are owned by their many shareholders , some of whom will be British , but many of whom may not be British .   Figures from independent research group Cornwall Energy suggest that by September 2014 Britain 's big six energy companies had a 92.4 % share of the market -- a decrease from 99.8 % in 2009 .

neg: Draft (sports) A draft is a process used in some countries and sports to allocate certain players to teams . In a draft , teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players . When a team selects a player , the team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract , and no other team in the league may sign the player .   The best-known type of draft is the entry draft , which is used to allocate players who have recently become eligible to play in a league . Depending on the sport , the players may come from college , high school or junior teams or teams in other countries .   An entry draft is intended to prevent expensive bidding wars for young talent and to ensure that no one team can sign contracts with all of the best young players and make the league uncompetitive . To encourage parity , teams that do poorly in the previous season usually get to choose first in the postseason draft , sometimes with a `` lottery '' factor to discourage teams from deliberately losing .   Other types of drafts include the expansion draft , in which a new team selects players from other teams in the league ; and the dispersal draft , in which a league 's surviving teams select players from the roster of a newly defunct franchise .   Drafts are usually permitted under anti-trust or restraint of trade laws because they are included in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players . These agreements generally stipulate that after a certain number of seasons , a player whose contract has expired becomes a free agent and can sign with any team . They also require minimum and sometimes maximum salaries for newly drafted players .   National Football League President Joseph Carr instituted a draft in 1935 as a way to restrain teams ' payrolls and reduce the dominance of the league 's perennial contenders . It was adopted by the precursor of the National Basketball Association in 1947 ; by the National Hockey League in 1963 ; and by Major League Baseball in 1965 , although draft systems had been used in baseball since the 19th century .   Drafts are uncommon outside the U.S. and Canada , and most professional football clubs obtain young players through transfers from smaller clubs or by developing youth players through their own academies . The youth system is operated directly by the teams themselves , who develop their players from childhood . Parity in these leagues is instead maintained through promotion and relegation , which automatically expels the weakest teams from a league in exchange for the strongest teams in the next lower league . The result is a drastically different endgame for poor teams : a North American sports team may see the opportunity to get better through the draft after a poor season , but a European club will instead be relegated down to a league with less money and prestige , potentially exacerbating the problems .

neg: Elias Sports Bureau The Elias Sports Bureau ( ESB ) is a company providing historical and current statistical information for sports , especially for major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada .   In 1913 , Al Munro Elias and his brother Walter established the Al Munro Elias Bureau in New York City . At first they sold printed scorecards with baseball data directly to fans , until The Telegram daily newspaper purchased their weekly compilation of `` averages '' in 1916 . Elias was appointed official statistician of the National League and International League in 1919 with the American League and other minor leagues to follow .   In 1937 , the Elias brothers assumed publication of Charley White 's Record Book , the so-called Little Red Book , after the death of its originator . It became an official ( authorized ) source for major league records . In 1938 , the Bureau began producing the Pocket Cyclopedia of Major League Baseball , and for many years published the official Green Book , the National League 's annual summary .   After the Elias brothers died in the 1940s , the company was managed by Lester Goodman . Seymour Siwoff , who had worked for the Elias brothers as a high school student before serving his country in World War II and earning the Purple Heart , returned to become the company 's accountant . In 1952 , after Lester Goodman 's sudden death , Seymour Siwoff purchased the company from the widows of the Elias brothers . The new company was renamed Elias Sports Bureau to better fulfill Siwoff 's vision of incorporating all professional sports , and Siwoff took the company into the computer age .   Under Siwoff 's leadership for over 60 years and to the present , ESB has become the leading authority on sports statistics . Originally official statistician of Major League Baseball , Siwoff was able to add to this distinction the National Football League , the National Basketball Association , the National Hockey League , Major League Soccer , and the Arena Football League . More recently , ESB added pro-women 's basketball ( WNBA ) and pro-golf to its list of league clientele .   ESB also is a primary source of statistics for national newspapers , magazines and websites , as well as dozens of broadcasters of MLB , NBA and NHL telecasts . With Sporting News having phased out its record book publishing business during 2007 , The Elias Book of Baseball Records appears to be the sole hard-copy source of official baseball records . This book is available only through the company website .   Steve Hirdt , executive vice-president , added his skills as a sports writer . His first venture was writing for ESPN 's Page2 website for a brief time . Later , he moved to a column for ESPN The Magazine . The column is entitled `` Do the Math '' and focuses on sports statistics .

neg: Sabres Hockey Network The Sabres Hockey Network is the official radio network and production company of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) . The network is currently operated jointly by the Sabres and by Entercom Communications .   Rick Jeanneret is the network 's primary play-by-play voice and has served in that capacity since 1971 , with Rob Ray currently serving as color commentator . In the 2008-2009 season , former Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes broadcaster Curt Keilback covered for Jeanneret during the team 's western road trip . In the 2009-2010 season , the Sabres did not send their television broadcast crew on the western road trip and used the local broadcasts of the Phoenix Coyotes , Anaheim Ducks , Los Angeles Kings and Vancouver Canucks as the `` home '' broadcast . Jeanneret and then color commentator Harry Neale had reduced duties for 2011 -- 2012 , with the duo only handling home games and a third of the road games ; Kevin Sylvester and Danny Gare handled the broadcasts of the remaining games that season .   The radio network 's postgame show is hosted by WGR personality Brian Koziol . Mike Schopp and Chris `` Bulldog '' Parker host the pre-game show , which airs only on WGR . On television , a pregame show and postgame show are broadcast , and hosted by Brian Duff , Harry Neale and Mike Robitaille . ( Prior to 2005 , the television pregame-postgame shows were simulcast on radio . The postgame was known as Hockey Hotline and hosted by Robitaille , first with host Brian Blessing and then Josh Mora . )   The theme song for broadcasts has been the `` Sabre Dance '' by Aram Khachaturian since the team 's debut . From the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs through the 2009 -- 10 season , the team used for its main theme an instrumental cut of `` Hurricane 2000 , '' an orchestral arrangement of the song `` Rock You Like a Hurricane '' recorded by Scorpions and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the album Moment of Glory . From the 1990s through 2006 the team used a custom-made theme . Beginning shortly after Terry Pegula 's acquisition of the team , the song was changed back to `` Sabre Dance . '' For the 2011-12 season , a hard-rock version of `` Sabre Dance '' rotates with MSG Network 's standard hockey theme as the theme for the Sabres Hockey Network broadcasts .

neg: Northern Ontario Hockey Association The Northern Ontario Hockey Association ( NOHA ) is minor and junior level ice hockey governing body . The NOHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada . The major league run by the NOHA is the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League of the Canadian Junior A Hockey League . There used to be a Junior `` B '' league called the North of Superior Junior B Hockey League , but it went defunct in 2004 . There was also a NOHA Jr. . B League , but it became the NOJHL in 1978 . The International Junior B Hockey League existed for many years as well .   The NOHA was founded in 1919 and that same year became affiliated with the Ontario Hockey Association . Decades later , that affiliation was broken but both now operate under the Ontario Hockey Federation .

neg: Sports betting Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome . The frequency of sports bet upon varies by culture , with the vast majority of bets being placed on association football , American football , basketball , baseball , hockey , mixed martial arts , track cycling , and boxing at both the amateur and professional levels . Sports betting can also extend to non-athletic events , such as reality show contests and political elections , and non-human contests such as horse racing , greyhound racing and illegal , underground dog fighting .   Sports bettors place their wagers either legally , through a bookmaker/sportsbook , or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as `` bookies '' . The term `` book '' being a reference to the books used by wagebrokers to track wagers , payouts , and debts . The majority of legal sportsbooks are found online , operated over the internet from jurisdictions separate from the clients they serve , usually to get around various gambling laws ( such as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 in the United States ) in select markets , such as Las Vegas , Nevada , or on gambling cruises through self-serve kiosks . They take bets `` up-front '' , meaning the bettor must pay the sportsbook before placing the bet . Illegal bookies , due to the nature of their business , can operate literally anywhere but only require money from losing bettors and do n't require the wagered money up front , creating the possibility of debt to the bookie from the bettor . This creates a number of other criminal elements , thus furthering their illegality .   Sportsbetting has resulted in a number of scandals in sport , affecting the integrity of sports events through various acts including point shaving ( players affecting the score by missing shots ) , spot-fixing ( a player action is fixed ) , bad calls from officials at key moments , and overall match fixing ( the overall result of the event is fixed ) . Examples are the 1919 World Series , the alleged ( and later admitted ) illegal gambling of former MLB player Pete Rose , and former NBA referee Tim Donaghy .

neg: Deutsche Eishockey Liga The Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( English : German Ice Hockey League ) or DEL , is a German professional ice hockey league that was founded in 1994 . It was formed as a replacement for the Eishockey-Bundesliga and became the new top-tier league in Germany as a result . Unlike the old Bundesliga , the DEL is not under the administration of the German Ice Hockey Federation . The DEL currently has the highest number of American and Canadian players outside North America .   In the 2015 -- 16 season the league was the second-best supported in Europe , behind the Swiss National League A , with an average attendance of 6,674 spectators per game .

neg: Eastern Conference (NHL) The Eastern Conference ( Conférence de l'Est ) is one of two conferences in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) used to divide teams . Its counterpart is the Western Conference .   Previously known as the Prince of Wales Conference ( or Wales Conference for short ) , it was created in 1974 when the NHL realigned its teams into two conferences and four divisions . Because the new conferences and divisions had little to do with North American geography , geographical references were removed . The conference was instead named for the Prince of Wales Trophy . . The current champions are the Pittsburgh Penguins , winning in 2016 -- 17 .   The Prince of Wales Trophy dates back to 1925 , when it was donated to the League by the then-current Prince of Wales , who later became King Edward VIII . It was originally given to the NHL 's champion . ( Until 1926 , the Stanley Cup was presented to the winner of a post-season playoff between the NHL and Western Hockey League champions . ) Since 1926 -- 27 , the Stanley Cup has gone to the NHL 's playoff champion . During the years when the NHL had no divisions , ( i.e. , 1925 -- 26 ; 1938 to 1967 ) , the Prince of Wales Trophy was presented to the League 's regular season champion ( analogous to today 's Presidents ' Trophy ) . From 1928 to 1937 , the Trophy went to the American Division regular season champion ; from 1967 to 1974 , it was presented to the East Division regular season champion ; and from 1974 to 1981 , it was presented to the Wales Conference regular season champion .   The conferences and divisions were re-aligned for the 1981 -- 82 to better reflect the geographical locations of the teams , but the existing names were retained with the Wales Conference becoming the conference primarily for the NHL 's eastern teams . The names of conferences and divisions were changed for the 1993 -- 94 season to reflect their geographic locations . Then-new NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman made the change to help non-hockey fans better understand the game , as the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) , National Football League ( NFL ) and Major League Baseball ( MLB ) all use geographic-based names for their conferences and divisions . However , the trophy awarded to the conference champion , the Prince of Wales Trophy , retains some connection to the heritage of the League . In 2005 , following the 2004 -- 05 NHL lockout , Bettman changed the Eastern Conference logo ( along with the Western Conference and NHL logos ) to its current format .

neg: List of Chicago Blackhawks head coaches The Chicago Blackhawks are an American professional ice hockey team based in Chicago , Illinois . They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) . The team was first named the `` Chicago Black Hawks '' , until 1986 , when spelling found in the original franchise documents spelled the franchise name as the `` Chicago Blackhawks '' , making the team change its name in response . The team is also referred to as the `` Hawks '' . The Blackhawks began their NHL play in the 1926 -- 27 season as an expansion team with the Detroit Cougars and the New York Rangers , and is one of the Original Six teams . The franchise has 6 Stanley Cup championships , most recently winning in the 2014-2015 season . Having played in the Chicago Coliseum ( 1926 -- 1929 ) and the Chicago Stadium ( 1929 -- 1994 ) , the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center since 1994 . The Blackhawks are owned by Rocky Wirtz ; Stan Bowman is the general manager , and Jonathan Toews is the team captain .   There have been 37 head coaches for the Blackhawks . The franchise 's first head coach was Pete Muldoon , who coached for 44 games in the 1926 -- 27 season . However , he is also well remembered for allegedly `` putting a curse '' on the Blackhawks , which stipulated that the team would never finish in first in the NHL . The Blackhawks never had a first-place finish until 40 years after that incident . Hughie Lehman , originally the team 's goaltender , became the Blackhawks ' third head coach after yelling at the first Blackhawks owner , Frederic McLaughlin , that his proposed plays were `` the craziest bunch of junk -LSB- he had -RSB- ever seen '' .   Orval Tessier became the only head coach to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Blackhawks by winning it in the 1982 -- 83 season . Tommy Gorman , Tommy Ivan , and Rudy Pilous are the only Blackhawks head coaches to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder . Gorman , Bill Stewart , Pulios , and Joel Quenneville are the only coaches to have won a Stanley Cup championship as the head coach of the Hawks .   Billy Reay , the Blackhawks ' head coach for 14 seasons , is the franchise 's all-time leader for the most regular-season and playoff games coached and wins , with 1012 regular-season games coached , 516 regular-season game wins , 117 playoff games coached , and 57 playoff game wins . Twenty-three head coaches spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Blackhawks . Darryl Sutter and Brian Sutter are the only pair of brothers to have coached the Blackhawks ; both coached the Hawks for three seasons each .   Joel Quenneville has been the head coach of the Blackhawks since the firing of Denis Savard during the 2008 -- 09 season .   __ NOTOC __

neg: Major film studio A major film studio is a production and film distributor that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market . In the North American , Western , and global markets , the major film studios , often simply known as the majors , are commonly regarded as the six diversified media conglomerates whose various film production and distribution subsidiaries collectively command approximately 80 to 85 percent of U.S. and Canadian box office revenue . The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate .   The `` Big Six '' majors , whose operations are based in or around the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood , are all centered in film studios active during Hollywood 's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s . In three cases -- 20th Century Fox , Warner Bros. , and Paramount -- the studios were one of the `` Big Five '' majors during that era as well . In two cases -- Columbia and Universal -- the studios were also considered majors , but in the next tier down , part of the `` Little Three '' . In the sixth case , Walt Disney Studios was an independent production company during the Golden Age ; it was an important Hollywood entity , but not a major . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , United Artists , and RKO were majors .   Today , Disney is the only member of the Big Six whose parent entity is still located near Los Angeles ( actually , on Disney 's studio lot and in the same building ) . The five others report to conglomerates headquartered in New York City , Philadelphia , and Tokyo . Of the Big Six , Paramount is the only one still based in Hollywood , and Paramount and Fox are the only ones still located within the Los Angeles city limits , while Disney and Warner Bros. are located in Burbank , Columbia in Culver City , and Universal in the unincorporated area of Universal City .   Most of today 's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e.g. Fox Searchlight Pictures ) or genre films ( e.g. Sony 's Screen Gems ) ; several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010 . The six major studios are contrasted with smaller production and/or distribution companies , which are known as independents or `` indies '' . The leading independent producer/distributors -- Lionsgate Films , The Weinstein Company , and former major studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- are sometimes referred to as `` mini-majors '' . From 1998 through 2005 , DreamWorks SKG commanded a large enough market share to arguably qualify it as a seventh major , despite its relatively small output . In 2006 , DreamWorks was acquired by Viacom , Paramount 's corporate parent . In late 2008 , DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films were distributed by Disney 's Touchstone Pictures until 2016 , at which point distribution switched to Universal .   The Big Six major studios are today primarily backers and distributors of films whose actual production is largely handled by independent companies -- either long-running entities or ones created for and dedicated to the making of a specific film . The specialty divisions often simply acquire distribution rights to pictures in which the studio has had no prior involvement . While the majors still do a modicum of true production , their activities are focused more in the areas of development , financing , marketing , and merchandising . Those business functions are still usually performed in or near Los Angeles , even though the runaway production phenomenon means that most films are now mostly or completely shot on location at places outside Los Angeles .   Since the dawn of filmmaking , the U.S. major film studios have dominated both American cinema and the global film industry . U.S. studios have benefited from a strong first-mover advantage in that they were the first to industrialize filmmaking and master the art of mass-producing and distributing high-quality films with broad cross-cultural appeal . Today , the Big Six majors routinely distribute hundreds of films every year into all significant international markets ( that is , where discretionary income is high enough for consumers to afford to watch films ) . It is very rare , if not impossible , for a film to reach a broad international audience on multiple continents and in multiple languages without first being picked up by one of the majors for distribution .

neg: World championship A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from across the world , representing their nations , and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest .   The title is usually awarded through a combination of specific contests or , less commonly , ranking systems ( e.g. the ICC Test Championship ) , or a combination of the two ( e.g. World Triathlon Championships in Triathlon ) . This determines a ` world champion ' , who or which is commonly considered the best nation , team , individual ( or other entity ) in the world in a particular field , although the vagaries of sport ensure that the competitor recognised at the best in an event is not always the ` world champion ' ( see Underdog ) .   Certain sports do not have a world championship . Instead , they may organise a world cup competition , or they may organize both , for example cycling ( UCI World Championships and UCI World Cups ) ) . Often , the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words . Some sports have multiple champions because of multiple organizations , such as boxing , mixed martial arts and wrestling .   Certain sports do not have a world championship or a world cup as such , but may have one or several world champions . Professional boxing , for example , has several world champions at different weights , but each one of them is decided by a `` title fight '' , not a tournament .   A certain number of sports hold world championships or world cups which are overshadowed , in terms of prestige , by the same events in the Olympic Games , the most prestigious multi-sports event .   Still other sports may or may not have a true world championship but may designate the winners of a domestic competition to be `` world champions . '' This is especially true of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada ; world cups and championships exist in all of the major sports , but the domestic U.S. and Canadian leagues are generally recognized as the world professional championships or the equivalent of a world club championship . ( In American football , although an IFAF World Championship exists , the United States is so far above and beyond the other nations it faces that the winner of the U.S.-based Super Bowl , a competition limited to the 32 teams in the National Football League , is commonly recognized as the world champion . )   Finally , certain professional sports do not have a world championship or world cup , but rather hold a series of events recognised as the elite level in their field ( e.g. tennis has a series of four Grand Slam events recognised as the pinnacle of the game , in addition to key team events , world tour finals and the Olympic Games , but no world championship or world cup ) .

neg: National sport A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation . Some sports are de facto ( not established by law ) national sports , as baseball is in the United States and cricket is in England , while others are de jure ( established by law ) national sports , as lacrosse and ice hockey are in Canada . These sports do not have to be necessarily the most played or most followed , which would be either association football , baseball or basketball in all but a few countries , but are widely considered to be important to the country or significant for its culture .

neg: NFC East The NFC East is a division of the National Football League ( NFL ) 's National Football Conference ( NFC ) . It currently has four members : the Philadelphia Eagles , the New York Giants , the Dallas Cowboys , and the Washington Redskins .   The division was formed in 1967 as the National Football League Capitol Division , keeping with the theme of having all of the league 's divisions starting with the letter `` C. '' The division was so named because it was centered on the capital of the United States , Washington , D.C. . In 1967 and 1969 the teams in the NFL Capitol Division were Dallas , Philadelphia , Washington and the expansion New Orleans Saints , which had been replaced by the New York Giants for the 1968 season . Its most recent Super Bowl champions are the New York Giants .

neg: Ice Hockey Superleague The British Ice Hockey Superleague ( BISL , also known as the Sekonda Ice Hockey Superleague from 1998 -- 99 for sponsorship reasons ) was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2003 . Devised in 1995 , it replaced the premier division of the British Hockey League at the end of 1995 -- 1996 season ; following the major reshuffle of the league and the split between the first and second tier divisions ; with the British National League becoming the new second tier division . It was disbanded after the 2002 -- 2003 season and replaced by the Elite Ice Hockey League . Unlike its North American counterparts , the Superleague was not divided into conferences ; teams competed in a single division .