{"id":1823,"date":"2026-08-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/offseason-ledger-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:43:33","slug":"the-nhl-map-32-clubs-across-four-divisions-1823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/the-nhl-map-32-clubs-across-four-divisions-1823\/","title":{"rendered":"The NHL map: 32 clubs across four divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The current imported NHL dataset contains 32 member clubs, divided evenly between the Eastern and Western conferences. Each conference contains 16 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific divisions each contain eight clubs. These counts describe the League structure represented in the official member-club list and standings feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/info\/nhl-affiliates-member-clubs\">Official NHL member-club list<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/api-web.nhle.com\/v1\/standings\/2026-04-17\">Official NHL standings API<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current NHL dataset contains 32 clubs: 16 per conference and eight in each of four divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[129,130,131],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-reads","tag-nhl-clubs","tag-nhl-conferences","tag-nhl-divisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/ice-hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}