This is the 2012-13 North American 3 Hockey League season. This is the league's thrd season season under affilation with the North American Hockey League. The league added the Breezy Point North Stars and the Alexandria Blizzard as expansion teams. The Chicago Hitmen franchise folded. The Pittsburgh franchise was renamed the Three Rivers Vengeance. The league was realigned into three unbalanced divisions from the previous four with the additon of the Breezy Point franchise Each team played 48 games and the top four teams in each division qualified for the playoffs