The American Hockey League (AHL) became the major affiliation league for the National Hockey League upon its amalgamation with the International Hockey League[?] in 2001. As of the 2002-03 season, the league had 28 clubs, most of them based in eastern Canada and the United States. The league was created in 1936, and teams compete annually for the Calder Cup[?].
... quadratic formula expresses the explicit solution(s) x to the quadratic equation
<math>ax^2+bx+c=0</math>
in terms of the coefficients a, b and c, ...