NHL power rankings for start of March

By Rick Morris

NOTE: Previous rankings are in parentheses, from start of November to present.

TOP TIER

1 Anaheim (2-1-6-2-2-1-1)

SECOND TIER

2 Pittsburgh (5-12-7-7-3-2-2)

3 St. Louis (10-5-3-5-4-3-4)

4 Chicago (6-3-1-1-1-4-3)

5 Colorado (3-2-5-8-11-7-5)

6 San Jose (1-10-2-6-5-5-6)

7 Boston (12-11-4-4-6-6-7)

THIRD TIER

8 Minnesota (15-6-10-12-17-12-12)

9 Toronto (4-13-16-17-16-17-10)

10 Tampa Bay (11-7-13-14-9-8-8)

11 Los Angeles (9-9-8-3-8-10-9)

12 Montreal (13-17-12-10-10-9-13)

13 New York Rangers (23-16-19-25-23-13-11)

14 Detroit (14-14-9-13-15-15-16)

15 Washington (20-15-15-15-14-16-25)

16 Philadelphia (29-27-21-23-18-14-23)

17 Winnipeg (18-21-18-20-22-24-21)

18 Dallas (19-20-20-16-13-21-22)

19 Nashville (16-19-17-19-20-25-18)

20 Phoenix (7-4-11-11-12-18-19)

21 New Jersey (25-22-22-26-19-22-24)

22 Ottawa (21-18-24-22-21-20-20)

23 Vancouver (8-8-14-9-7-11-14)

24 Columbus (26-26-26-21-24-19-15)

25 Carolina (24-23-23-18-25-23-17)

FOURTH TIER

26 New York Islanders (22-24-27-29-28-26-26)

27 Calgary (17-25-25-24-27-28-27)

28 Florida (27-29-29-27-26-27-28)

29 Edmonton (28-28-28-28-29-29-29)

30 Buffalo (30-30-30-30-30-30-30)

BIGGEST RISERS: Washington (10 spots), Philadelphia (7 spots), Dallas, Minnesota and Winnipeg (4 spots), New Jersey (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Columbus and Vancouver (9 spots), Carolina (8 spots)

RANKINGS BY DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF TEAMS, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 CENTRAL 10.57

2 ATLANTIC 16.5

3 PACIFIC  16.71

4 METROPOLITAN 17.75

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 WEST 27.28

2 EAST 34.25