NHL power rankings for start of March

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

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

SECOND TIER

2 Boston (10-10-12-16-14-6-2)

3 San Jose (16-12-13-11-7-4-3)

4 Calgary (9-9-7-2-6-2-7)

THIRD TIER

5 Toronto (4-3-2-4-2-12-4)

6 Washington (17-17-8-6-3-13-8)

7 Winnipeg (3-4-6-3-4-3-5)

8 New York Islanders (11-11-14-20-11-9-6)

9 Carolina (19-24-18-22-23-15-12)

10 St. Louis (26-27-31-24-23-15)

11 Pittsburgh (12-30-25-15-8-8-9)

12 Nashville (1-1-3-5-10-10-10)

13 Vegas (25-28-22-8-5-5-13)

14 Montreal (13-13-17-12-12-7-14)

15 Columbus (14-7-9-14-9-11-11)

16 Philadelphia (24-19-24-31-31-17)

17 Dallas (18-8-11-17-18-19-16)

18 Arizona (22-22-23-26-27-24-27)

19 Colorado (8-16-5-10-16-18-23)

20 Minnesota (5-6-16-18-21-21-21)

21 Florida (30-26-26-25-25-28-20)

22 Buffalo (15-5-4-9-15-16-18)

23 Chicago (20-25-29-20-26-19)

24 New York Rangers (28-14-15-21-22-22-24)

25 Edmonton (7-21-21-13-19-20-30)

26 Vancouver (6-15-27-19-13-14-22)

FOURTH TIER

27 New Jersey (27-29-28-26-29-28)

28 Anaheim (21-23-10-7-17-17-29)

29 Detroit (29-18-19-23-29-30-25)

30 Los Angeles (31-31-30-28-25-26)

FIFTH TIER

31 Ottawa (23-20-20-24-30-27-31)

BIGGEST RISERS: Arizona (9 spots), Edmonton and St. Louis (5 spots), Colorado (4 spots), Calgary and Carolina (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Los Angeles and Vancouver (4 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 14.5

2 CENTRAL 15.43

3 ATLANTIC 15.63

4 PACIFIC 18.38

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 EAST 30.13

2 WEST 32.88