NHL power rankings for start of April

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Washington (9-8-8-1-1-1-4)

2 Chicago (1-1-3-5-6-5-2)

3 Columbus (8-4-1-2-3-6-1)

4 Pittsburgh (6-5-2-4-4-3-3)

SECOND TIER

5 Montreal (3-3-7-7-5-8-8)

6 Anaheim (11-12-12-9-7-10-9)

7 Edmonton (20-14-9-10-8-9-12)

8 New York Rangers (2-2-4-6-10-4-6)

9 St. Louis (4-9-14-16-24-13-13)

10 Calgary (26-16-18-14-21-22-14)

11 Minnesota (21-6-5-3-2-2-7)

12 Nashville (13-23-23-21-12-14-15)

13 Boston (14-13-13-12-13-11-10)

14 Ottawa (5-11-11-11-11-12-11)

15 San Jose (7-7-6-8-9-7-5)

16 Toronto (17-24-16-15-15-19-19)

THIRD TIER

17 Tampa Bay (10-17-19-25-25-21-17)

18 Carolina (24-20-15-13-20-26-22)

19 Philadelphia (15-10-10-17-14-16-20)

20 Winnipeg (23-21-24-23-23-23-23)

21 New York Islanders (30-28-27-24-17-15-16)

22 Los Angeles (12-15-21-20-19-17-18)

23 Buffalo (27-25-26-27-27-27-25)

24 Dallas (22-22-17-18-18-24-24)

25 Detroit (18-19-22-28-28-28-26)

26 Florida (19-18-20-19-16-18-21)

FOURTH TIER

27 New Jersey (16-27-28-26-26-20-27)

28 Vancouver (25-26-25-22-22-25-28)

FOURTH TIER

29 Arizona (29-29-29-29-29-29-29)

FIFTH TIER

30 Colorado (28-30-30-30-30-30-30)

BIGGEST RISERS: Edmonton (5 spots), Calgary and St. Louis (4 spots), Anaheim, Montreal, Toronto, Washington and Winnipeg (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: San Jose (10 spots), Florida and New York Islanders (5 spots), Calgary, Los Angeles and Minnesota (4 spots), Boston, Nashville and Ottawa (3 spots)

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

1 METROPOLITAN 12.63

2 PACIFIC 16.71

3 CENTRAL 16.86

4 ATLANTIC 17.38

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 EAST 30.01

2 WEST 33.57