During the season each NHL team plays a complex roster of 41 regular season games at home and 41 games away. Each team plays 10 inter conference games(not in their own conference) during the season. This consists of one game played against each team in two of the three divisions of the opposing conference.

All NHL teams also play 40 games against other opposing conference teams. They will hence play a total of four games against every one of ten teams. Every NHL team also plays 32 games in their own division which consists of eight games played against each of the other four teams.

A winning game for a team is worth 2 points. A losing game in overtime or a shootout wins the team 1 point and a loss in regulation time gets zero points.

The division champion is the team which gains the highest total points in the regular season. In each conference there are three divisions and the champion of each division and the five next best teams will be in the playoff roster in every conference. This means that that eight teams in total from each conference will play in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup.

Two teams play a best of seven series of games in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The losing team is eliminated and the winner of the best of seven games advances to the next round. Overtime periods are played until a winner is decided in the case of a draw at the end of the three regular game periods.

Each overtime period is twenty minutes of full team hockey. The first team to score a goal is declared the winner during overtime and the game ends. This is generally referred to as sudden death.

The Stanley Cup playoffs are extremely popular and are one of the most watched series of games in sports. The intense rivalry of the playoffs keeps millions of fans watching the games on TV.

A lot of people are not aware that the regular season NHL games and the playoffs can be watched on their computer screen. Many sports events from all over the world can in fact be viewed with satellite TV on a computer screen. All that is required is to download a program from the internet to accomplish this.

If you wish to view satellite TV on your own computer you can download the program.You can then watch more than three thousand TV channels on your computer monitor.