Tuesday, March 3, 2020

NHL power rankings for start of March

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER
1 Boston (1-5-3-1)
2 St. Louis (3-3-1-6)
3 Washington (2-1-2-3)
4 Tampa Bay (24-20-14-2)
5 Colorado (7-2-6-9)
SECOND TIER
6 Philadelphia (6-14-11-8)
7 Dallas (10-8-8-5)
8 Vegas (16-12-10-15)
9 Pittsburgh (13-6-5-4)
10 Toronto (19-17-7-10)
11 NY Islanders (4-4-4-12)
12 Edmonton (5-16-22-13)
13 Columbus (25-26-23-7)
THIRD TIER
14 Carolina (11-7-9-11)
15 Calgary (17-10-16-18)
16 NY Rangers (18-18-20-21)
17 Vancouver (15-21-12-14)
18 Florida (14-22-13-16)
19 Nashville (23-24-24-19)
20 Arizona (8-9-17-17)
21 Winnipeg (9-11-19-20)
22 Minnesota (22-15-18-25)
23 Montreal (21-19-21-22)
24 Buffalo (20-13-15-24)
25 Chicago (27-26-25-23)
26 New Jersey (30-30-30-27)
27 San Jose (12-23-26-26)
28 Anaheim (26-25-28-28)
29 Los Angeles (28-29-29-30)
30 Ottawa (29-27-27-29)
FOURTH TIER
31 Detroit (31-31-31-31)

BIGGEST RISERS: Vegas (7 spots), NY Rangers and St. Louis (5 spots), Colorado (4 spots), Calgary and Minnesota (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Columbus (6 spots), Pittsburgh (5 spots), Arizona and Vancouver (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 12.25
2 CENTRAL 14.29
3 ATLANTIC 17.63
4 PACIFIC 19.5

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE
1 EAST 29.88
2 WEST 33.79

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