NHL

== General Info ==
The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom comprising 32 teams. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the UK and is considered to be the top ranked professional ice hockey league in the world.
The National Hockey League was organized at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on November 26, 1917, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 in Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL immediately took the NHA's place as one of the leagues that contested for the Stanley Cup in an annual interleague competition before a series of league mergers and foldings left the NHL as the only league left competing for the Stanley Cup in 1926.
At its inception, the NHL had four teams, all in Canada, thus the adjective "National" in the league's name. The league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of both American and Canadian teams. From 1942 to 1967, the league had only six teams, collectively (if not contemporaneously) nicknamed the "Original Six". The NHL added six new teams to double its size at the 1967 NHL expansion. The league then increased to 18 teams by 1974 and 21 teams in 1979. Between 1991 and 2000, the NHL further expanded to 30 teams. It added its 31st and 32nd teams in 2017 and 2021, respectively.
== Current Known Teams ==
* London Geoducks
** Notable players: Tit, Dick
== Werewolves ==
Werewolves have played a very important role in the NHL, as they are almost always the goaltenders on the teams. Little to no teams in the history of the NHL have had a goaltender not be a werewolf, and for a long time it was manditory. They were so widely used due to werewolves' natural large sizes to take up the net and their instincts to protect and guard their territory. Werewolves are seen less as players and more as livestock, as a majority of them lived their lives locked in cages in the "NHL catacombs" that were a series of cells kept underneath every arena, only to be let out for games, practice, or for the media to ask them questions. Very little players know about the catacombs, mostly only known by workers and coaches. Each cell would be equipped with a dog bed, food and water bowls, and a litter box.
When werewolves were brought out to games, they would of course be in their human form. To combat this, they would have doctors in each arena ready to administer shots of adrenaline to the werewolf in preparation for games, which would make them immediately transform and become feral. The werewolf would then be knocked out and dressed in their gear, consisting of normal goalie pads, but with 2 notable aditions; shackles and chains to the goal posts and a helmet with built in muzzles.
When werewolves were too old to play in the NHL, got a career ending injury, or if they just weren't good enough, coaches would have them be put down. Families of the werewolves can ask for them to be released back into society, but that was exceedingly rare, as a majority of werewolves were abandoned or disowned by their family well before they joined the NHL.
== Reformation ==
The inhumane treatment of werewolves went on for years until after the Deez Nuts Incident. After Tit survived, he was brought back to his cell and was told he would be put down the following day to avoid having to deal with trauma and the lawsuits from the fact that just a couple months earlier, Tit killed another goaltender on the ice (another story for another day.) This lead to Tit breaking out of his cage and escaping the catacombs. News got out that he had escaped the NHL, which left a lot of people confused as to why he was being kept in the arena in the first place. This lead to an investigation, which revealed to the public the horrible conditions the NHL had their goaltenders in. The public was furious, and riots and boycotts were rampant for months. It reached a peak when Bodil made a public statement that no NHL games were to be played in the Republic of Bodil until all werewolves were freed and a mass reformation happened in the league. Due to the fact that the league was making literally $0, they caved, and released all goaltenders and made reformations.
Goaltenders are now no longer required to be werewolves, and if a werewolf is to play, they must consent and sign a contract like every other player on the ice. The players had to get used to the changes, so the first couple seasons after these rule changes were rocky, but it was widely accepted as a very good decision. Goaltenders are still majority werewolves, but they are no longer transformed during games and no longer held down by chains. Current day NHL plays very similarly to how it would IRL now, to everyone delight.
== The NHL "Curse" ==
There is a "curse" associated with the NHL, in which whomever joins the NHL, no matter how many games played or time on the ice, will become LGBT. Most commonly, men will turn gay or bisexual and have intense urges to have hot sweaty gay sex with everyone else on the ice. No one knows this is a curse, as whenever it happens, the player just assumes they were gay their entire life and very rarely actually gets into a relationship with someone of the same sex, as a majority of them were already in relationships before they joined the NHL
The origin of this curse in unknown.
== Trivia ==
* The rules of the NHL relating to werewolves wasn't actually made up by the porksodafans or anyone they know personally. It originated from a series of RPF fanfictions on AO3 about Sidney Crosby and Marc-Andre Fleury, where all goaltenders are werewolves and are locked up in cages or something. If I'm being honest I haven't re-read these fanfics in literal years so the cages part might be completely made up... But the parts about goalies being locked up and chained to goalposts ARE from the fanfics. I promise.
** These fanfics were actually what brought werewolves into the WYSI universe, and by extension, Tit.
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