Season 12 Power Rankings - 2nd Edition

The Dallas Stars celebrate their 7th goal in an 8-0 win over the Leafs

The second edition of the Season 12 Power Rankings sees a lot of movement as every team moves beyond the 10 game mark of the season. Moving up the ladder, Dallas jumped 12 spots by reeling off 5 straight wins including an 8-0 thumping of the lowly Toronto Maple Leafs. Going the other way, the biggest drop belongs to the New Jersey Devils who fell 12 spots due to 5 losses in 6 games after starting the season 6-0.

Toronto has been the league's stat-padder so far as they've been shutout 5 times already, and have losses of 10-0, 8-0, 8-0 7-0 and 5-0. Two of those big losses came at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins who also have a 10-0 tally over Florida that has helped vault them to a league leading 4.55 goals per game.

Surprisingly, there is a 4 way tie at the top of the scoring race, with two Canucks (Datsyuk and Alfredsson) an Av (Ericksson) and a Flame (Gaborik) all stuck on 18 points. The surprising part isn't that these players are at the top, as they're all big names, but rather none represent a team in the top 5 of this week's Power Rankings.

Here are the second edition of the Power Rankings for Season 12:

Rank Previous Team
1 1 San Jose
2 13 New York Rangers
3 3 Pittsburgh
4 11 Atlanta
5 17 Dallas
6 8 Colorado
7 4 Philadelphia
8 5 Vancouver
9 18 Calgary
10 20 Chicago
11 12 New York Islanders
12 14 Boston
13 21 Edmonton
14 2 New Jersey
15 7 Tampa Bay
16 15 Buffalo
17 6 Anaheim
18 9 Detroit
19 26 Washington
20 16 Minnesota
21 10 Montreal
22 23 Carolina
23 29 St. Louis
24 25 Columbus
25 30 Florida
26 24 Nashville
27 22 Los Angeles
28 28 Toronto
29 19 Ottawa
30 27 Phoenix

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