Junior Hockey League Division B
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Logo of the Junior Hockey League
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| Sport | ice hockey |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Inaugural season | 2011–12 |
| Director | Dmitry Yefimov |
| Motto | Лига сильных (Liga silnykh, The League of the strong) |
| No. of teams | 15 |
| Country |
 Russia (14 teams) Kazakhstan (1 team) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Gornyak Uchaly (2nd title) |
| Most titles | Gornyak Uchaly (2 titles) |
| Promotion to | MHL (2 finalists) |
| Related competitions |
KHL VHL MHL VHL-B |
| Official website | http://nmhl.fhr.ru/ |
The National Junior Hockey League (NMHL) (formerly Junior Hockey League Division B) (Russian: Национальная молодежная хоккейная лига (НМХЛ)) is the second level of the Junior Hockey League, the KHL's junior ice hockey league. The B division was established in 2011 and the inaugural season was the 2011–12 season. A promotion and relegation system was in place between the MHL and MHL-B, where the bottom 2 teams at the end of the season of MHL were relegated to MHL-B and the 2 best MHL-B teams are promoted to MHL.
The Regions Cup is awarded to the champion of the playoffs of the league.
The Generation Cup (Russian: Кубок Поколения, Kubok Pokoleniya) is the all-star game of MHL-B and analog to the MHL's Challenge Cup. The first ever Generation Cup took place on 23 February 2012 in Penza and featured Team East against Team West.
The Future Cup (Russian: Кубок Будущего, Kubok Budushchego) was an exhibition game featuring under-18 players of MHL and MHL-B. The first ever (and so far only) Future Cup took place on 13 March 2012 in Chelyabinsk and featured players who were not born before 1 January 1994.
The Super Cup (Russian: Суперкубок, Superkubok) was the trophy awarded to the winner of the game between the winner of the Kharlamov Cup (the MHL champions) and the winner of the Regions Cup (the MHL-B champions). The first ever (and so far only) Super Cup took place on 30 April 2016 in Uchaly.
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