First rule: ask your husband!!!!! ;)
Anyways, here is the league organisation, and the playoff system:
LEAGUE ORGANISATION
The National Hockey League is organised in the following manner:
Eastern Conference (15 teams, split into 3 divisions of 5 teams each)
Western Conference (15 teams, split into 3 divisions of 5 teams each)
このページをご覧になったらわかりやすいかもしれない
http://www.nhl.com
そして、"TEAMS"(上の半ばぐらいにある)のボタンにマウスをさせば、リーグ全体の組織一覧がでてくる。
はい、Playoff Systemにすすみます、ね。皆さん、メモのご用意はいかがですか。。。。。 ;)
All playoff series are a best of 7 series, wherein the winner must win 4 games to advance to the next round. Ties are decided by Sudden Death Overtime (即死延長戦???), with no shootout system (as far as I know).
一回目 Conference Quarter finals
Every year, 16 teams make the playoffs, 8 from each conference.
According to the final regular season league standings, as measured by points, the #1 team in each conference plays the #8 team, the #2 team the #7 team, the #3 team the #6 team, the #4 team the #5 team.
The system works the same for both conferences.
二回目 Conference Semi-finals
一回目の勝ち抜きの四団が戦い合う。
三回目 Conference Finals
二回目の勝ち抜きの合戦。
四回目 League finals (the Stanley Cup Finals!!!!!!!!!!)
The 2 conference champions battle it out like Roman Gladiators in skates and better jerseys. It’s a rocking, rollicking, exciting, frustrating, exhilirating, and ultimately purely Canadian sort of thing.
Because we’re the only ones bored enought to give a crap. ;)
Hope that helps.