Glossary

Frozen Ledger Index (FLI): Frozen Ledger Index, or FLI, is the site’s framework for comparing NHL franchise history across eras through season-level performance and long-term franchise outcomes.

Total FLI: Total FLI is the cumulative Frozen Ledger Index across the full counted history of a franchise, including connected lineage where applicable.

Average FLI: Average FLI shows the average Frozen Ledger Index per counted season, helping shorter and longer franchise histories be compared in context.

Season FLI: Season FLI measures the strength of one specific season in the Frozen Ledger framework, rather than the full franchise record.

Best Season: Best Season is the single season in the tracked franchise history with the highest Frozen Ledger Index score.

All-Time Rank: All-Time Rank shows where a franchise currently sits in the all-time Frozen Ledger rankings relative to the other tracked NHL franchises.

Playoff Rate: Playoff Rate shows how often a franchise reached the postseason across its counted seasons.

Rank Change: Rank Change describes how a franchise’s ranking position moved relative to a prior generated ranking view when that comparison is available.

Era FLI: Era FLI is the cumulative Frozen Ledger Index for the currently selected era or location scope, rather than the franchise’s full cumulative total.

Original Six: Original Six refers to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, the New York Rangers, and Toronto in the pre-1967 expansion context.

Expansion-Era Franchise: Expansion-era franchise refers to teams that joined the NHL in or after the 1967 expansion wave, excluding the Original Six.

Franchise Lineage: Franchise lineage is the continuous history Frozen Ledger keeps connected when a franchise relocates or changes identity without the franchise record ending.

Current Identity: Current identity refers to the franchise’s present-day name and location, even when its full history includes prior names or cities.

Full Lineage: Full lineage refers to the franchise’s complete connected history across prior names and locations when Frozen Ledger treats that record as one continuous franchise.

Relocation: Relocation describes a franchise move from one city to another. Frozen Ledger keeps that history connected when the franchise record continues.

Defunct Franchise: A defunct franchise is a franchise that no longer competes as an active NHL team in the tracked history and is shown as inactive or ended in Frozen Ledger.

Inception Season: Inception Season is the first season Frozen Ledger counts for the franchise identity or lineage represented on the page.

Last Season: Last Season identifies the final season in the tracked record for a team or identity that no longer continues in that form.

Defunct: Defunct means the team or franchise identity no longer competes as an active NHL team in the tracked Frozen Ledger record.

Relocated: Relocated means a franchise moved locations while Frozen Ledger treats the connected franchise history as continuous.

Historical Names: Historical Names are prior names connected to the franchise record, including rename-only histories and names associated with earlier locations.

Current Identity View: Current Identity View focuses interpretation on seasons from the present-day team identity rather than every connected prior identity.

Full Lineage View: Full Lineage View includes the complete connected franchise record across prior names or locations when Frozen Ledger treats that history as continuous.

Stanley Cups: Stanley Cups refers to championships won within the tracked franchise lineage represented on the site.

Playoff Appearances: Playoff Appearances counts the seasons in which the franchise reached the playoffs within the tracked record.

Season Score: Season Score represents the regular-season portion of a franchise’s one-season scoring profile in the team table.

Playoffs Score: Playoffs Score represents the playoff component of a franchise’s one-season Frozen Ledger profile.

Awards Score: Awards Score represents the awards and recognition component of a franchise’s one-season Frozen Ledger profile.

Best Active Franchise: Best Active Franchise identifies the top-ranked active NHL franchise in the current Frozen Ledger table.

Championship-Heavy: Championship-heavy describes franchises whose Frozen Ledger profile is driven heavily by Stanley Cup wins and deep championship-era success.

Consistency-Driven: Consistency-driven describes franchises whose historical case is built through sustained competitiveness, repeated playoff appearances, and steady accumulated value.