NHL power rankings for mid-March

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Nashville (12-7-7-7-4-6-3)

2 Tampa Bay (1-1-1-1-1-4-1)

3 Boston (27-22-8-5-2-2-2)

4 Winnipeg (8-2-3-3-5-3-5)

5 Vegas (7-9-2-2-3-1-4)

6 Toronto (3-4-9-10-11-5-6)

SECOND TIER

7 Washington (10-11-4-4-8-10-12)

8 Minnesota (26-17-19-8-7-7-8)

9 Pittsburgh (6-6-22-19-13-9-9)

10 Colorado (25-23-23-16-15-18-14)

11 Los Angeles (4-13-6-11-16-16-15)

12 San Jose (13-14-11-12-12-11-11)

13 Anaheim (23-24-20-17-14-15-13)

14 Philadelphia (20-29-24-21-18-13-7)

15 Florida (30-27-21-18-23-21-19)

16 Dallas (24-16-12-9-6-8-10)

17 New Jersey (5-5-5-22-17-17-16)

18 Calgary (14-15-17-6-10-14-17)

19 St. Louis (2-8-13-14-9-12-18)

THIRD TIER

20 Columbus (11-3-10-13-20-23-21)

21 New York Rangers (15-12-14-15-22-25-27)

22 Ottawa (9-26-29-28-29-26-30)

23 Carolina (18-19-16-24-24-20-20)

24 Chicago (21-21-18-20-21-24-23)

25 New York Islanders (16-10-15-23-19-19-24)

26 Edmonton (29-28-26-27-26-28-28)

27 Montreal (19-20-27-26-28-29-26)

28 Detroit (22-25-25-25-25-22-22)

FOURTH TIER

29 Arizona (31-30-31-31-31-30-29)

30 Buffalo (28-31-30-30-30-31-31)

31 Vancouver (17-18-28-29-27-27-25)

BIGGEST RISERS: Ottawa (8 spots), New York Rangers (6 spots), Washington (5 spots), Colorado, Florida and Los Angeles (4 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Philadelphia (7 spots), Dallas and Detroit (6 spots), Carolina (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 CENTRAL 10.86

2 METROPOLITAN 17

3 ATLANTIC 16.63

4 PACIFIC 18.13

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 WEST 28.99

2 EAST 33.63