Season structure of the NHL Season structure of the NHL The season structure of the National Hockey League (NHL) is divided into the regular season and the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the regular season, which generally runs from early October through early April, teams play 82 games which determine their standings. The three highest-placed teams in each division and two wild card teams per conference enter the playoff elimination tournament to determine the Stanley Cup champion. Since the 1995–96 season, each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 each of home and road. In all, 1,271 games are scheduled (480 of them
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