The Stanley Cup is the big playoff thing. It actually runs for about 2 months. Regular season ends mid-April and the playoff start within a few days, but no longer than a week, after that. The final Stanley Cup games are played around mid-June.
The way things are set up now is that there are two conferences, Eastern and Western, and each of those have 3 divisions of 5 teams each. The elimination goes Quarter Finales, Semi-Finales, Finales, Stanley Cup. Each round is best of 7 games. (So by the end it's possible to play an additional 28 games after the end of the regular season. The Stanley Cup playoffs are also generally considered one of the most brutal playoffs in sports as by the end everyone is injured.)
I'm not sure how that would change for an Earth Alliance league. The NHL has 30 teams currently and there are a number of European and Russian leagues.
The thing to note about the Stanley Cup is that Lord Stanley's Cup is the only trophy. The same trophy used in 1892 is the one used today. The original trophy is the bowl on top and various bases have been made over the years. The names of everyone on the winning team (including coaching staff and such) are engraved onto the cup every year. The winning team gets to host the cup for that year and each member gets to do whatever they want with the cup for a 24hr period. This has ranged from taking the cup to a children's hospital to taking the cup fishing.
And I've probably gone on long enough. Feel free to ask more questions.
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Date: 2010-07-20 11:42 pm (UTC)The way things are set up now is that there are two conferences, Eastern and Western, and each of those have 3 divisions of 5 teams each. The elimination goes Quarter Finales, Semi-Finales, Finales, Stanley Cup. Each round is best of 7 games. (So by the end it's possible to play an additional 28 games after the end of the regular season. The Stanley Cup playoffs are also generally considered one of the most brutal playoffs in sports as by the end everyone is injured.)
I'm not sure how that would change for an Earth Alliance league. The NHL has 30 teams currently and there are a number of European and Russian leagues.
The thing to note about the Stanley Cup is that Lord Stanley's Cup is the only trophy. The same trophy used in 1892 is the one used today. The original trophy is the bowl on top and various bases have been made over the years. The names of everyone on the winning team (including coaching staff and such) are engraved onto the cup every year. The winning team gets to host the cup for that year and each member gets to do whatever they want with the cup for a 24hr period. This has ranged from taking the cup to a children's hospital to taking the cup fishing.
And I've probably gone on long enough. Feel free to ask more questions.