National Hockey League · 2005-062024-25 · Salary Cap Era
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Champions in this rangeSeason, program, historical home location, and recognition basis
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How Champography calculates the point
Published dataset 1.6 · wgs84-frechet-v1
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The epicenter
The equal-season-weight geodesic Frechet mean of the selected champion season points, computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid. Each point is the champion's verified home rink for the season they won, not a later arena the franchise moved into.
Season weighting
Every championship season contributes a total weight of exactly 1.0. The Stanley Cup has one winner per season, so no season splits its vote.
The inter-league Cup years
Not applicable: no season has produced co-champions. From 1918 through 1926 the Cup was contested between the NHL champion and champions of rival western leagues, so a non-NHL club could win it; the 1925 Victoria Cougars did, and that title is counted because the Stanley Cup, not the NHL playoff title, is what this dataset tracks. Each claim records whether the champion was an NHL member.
Historical rinks
The champion's regular-season home rink is used, never a neutral Final site. Season-specific arena chronology is applied throughout: the 1924 Canadiens point is the Mount Royal Arena rather than the Forum, which they did not occupy until 1926; Ottawa's four championships split between Dey's Arena and the Ottawa Auditorium; and the Rangers' first three titles resolve to Madison Square Garden III on Eighth Avenue rather than the present Garden. Several Finals were played away from the champion's rink, including the 1928 and 1940 Rangers when the circus occupied the Garden and the 2020 Lightning in the Edmonton bubble; those displacements are recorded in claim notes and do not move the season point.
The champion policy
The single Stanley Cup winner counts for every season the Cup was awarded. No selector reconciliation is required.
Place labels
Labels name the nearest populated place in the official USGS GNIS Populated Places extract, which includes small and unincorporated communities. If the full national extract is unavailable during a build, a source-controlled GNIS seed is merged with GeoNames cities1000 and the fallback is disclosed in release metadata. GNIS classes apartment blocks, public-housing projects and neighbourhood tracts as populated places, so where the nearest name is one the Census Bureau does not list as a place, a Census-recognized place is preferred when it lies within twice the distance or three kilometres further, whichever is greater. Census place classes come from the USGS GNIS Federal Codes file, joined on feature id. Rural communities that the Census Bureau also omits keep their own name rather than being replaced by a larger town miles away. GNIS covers the United States only, so a source-controlled Canadian table of 418 populated places supplies Canadian labels; it competes on distance alone and rows resolved against it are marked in the public CSV. That table is compiled rather than read from an authoritative extract: its coordinates are consistent with CGNDB and Statistics Canada census-subdivision centres but have not been diffed against them, and a sampled check found municipal centres accurate to within about a kilometre. Canadian coverage is therefore coarser than the United States coverage, and labels outside the 25-mile radius fall back to distance and bearing. A county is stated only when the nearest place is within 15 km, since the county belongs to the place rather than to the point. Beyond 25 miles a label gives distance and bearing instead of saying 'near', because at that range the nearest named place is a direction rather than a location. Labels otherwise remain qualified as 'Near' because populated-place points do not prove legal municipal containment.
Current verified coverage: Champion coverage spans 1917-18, the NHL's first season and the first Stanley Cup won by an NHL club, through the latest completed season. The 1925 Victoria Cougars are counted as the last non-NHL Cup winner. Three championship franchises are defunct rather than ancestral to current clubs: the original Ottawa Senators, who moved to St. Louis in 1934 and folded in 1935 and are unrelated to the 1992 expansion Senators, the Montreal Maroons, and the Victoria Cougars. Demolished rinks carry documented historical-site coordinates with their precision stated in the public CSV.
Complete methodologyWeighting, venue policy, locality resolution, precomputation, QA, and limitations.How the math worksWGS84 geodesic mean, range lookup, and trails.Championship erasWhy each preset begins and ends where it does.Search the champions recordInspect every claim, rink, franchise relocation, and source.