Presidents' Trophy The Presidents' Trophy winner is guaranteed home-ice advantage in all four rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs, provided the team advances that far. However, it does not guarantee that success, as only eight of all the Presidents' Trophy winners have gone on to win the Stanley Cup in their respective years, leading to a popular superstition that the Trophy may be cursed. In addition, six Presidents' Trophy winners have been eliminated in the preliminary round of the playoffs, with first-round upsets being common in the NHL compared to other major professional sports. NHL broadcaster Darren Eliot attributes the apparent lack
Off the Rails (play) production directed by Bill Rauch is slated to open at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and run from July 27 – October 28, 2017. Off the Rails (play) Off the Rails is a stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by Randy Reinholz, a Choctaw Native American playwright. The play was written in 2015, and inspired by Reinholz's wife and co-founder of the Native Voices theatre company at the Autry Museum of the American West, Jean Bruce Scott. Although "Off the Rails" follows the plot of "Measure for Measure", infamous for being one of Shakespeare's problem plays, the power struggles