The first week of the season saw some huge blowouts with Pittsburgh embarrassing Florida 10-1, Calgary avenging an opening game loss to their provincial rivals in Edmonton with a 8-1 thrashing of the Oilers and in Vancouver, the Canucks crushed the Red Wings 7-1 on home ice. In all, teams managed to score 5 or more goals 32 times in the first 60 games of the season, and though it's incredibly early, San Jose's Eric Staal and Zach Parise are on pace for 180 points each. Is this the start of a new high-scoring era in the WCHL?

Here are the opening set of Power Rankings for Season 12:

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