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