NHL Power Rankings: Week 25

by: CoreyS On Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Total Pro Sports – This week’s NHL Power Rankings has the Bruins back in the top spot, the Devils and Oilers struggling and the Blues peaking at the right time as they try to secure the 8th and final playoff spot in the West.

NHL Power Rankings Movers And Shakers

The biggest Shakers in our NHL Power Rankings this week were the New Jersey Devils and Edmonton Oilers both dropping 4 spots to end up at #8 and #20.

The second biggest shaker was the Dallas Stars failing 3 spots to land at #23.

The biggest Movers in our NHL Power Rankings this week were the red hot St.Louis Blues moving up 4 spots to end up at #18.

Lets take a look at the rest of the league: NHL POWER RANKINGS for Week 25.

Rank	Record	Change	Comment
1	48-17-10	2	After going through a bit of a funk David Krejci has returned to form posting 7 points and a plus/minus rating of plus-4 in his last 5 games.
2	49-15-11	-	Set a new franchise record for points in a season with 109 after their 3-2 win over the Coyotes Saturday night.
3	49-18-10	2	Bad week for the Wings going 1-3-0 losing to the Flames, Islanders and Predators.
4	41-24-10	1	Have 5 players who have scored 25+ goals this season and Joffrey Lupul is poised to join that club as well as he currently sits at 23 goals for the season.
5	46-23-7	1	Alexander Ovechkin padded his lead for the Rocket Richard Trophy scoring 3 more goals last week to put his total to 53 goals on the year.
6	41-27-8	2	Good week for Marc-Andre Fleury who picked up both wins for the Pens including a 2-0 shutout over the Flames.
7	43-26-6	-	Recorded a big 3-2 win over the Wild Sunday night after being shutout in their previous two games.
8	47-24-4	4	Currently on a 4 game winless streak after losing all 3 of their games last week.
9	42-28-7	2	Extended their home game winning streak to 9 games and are also on a 6 game winning streak.
10	41-25-9	1	Great week for the Sedin Twins as they combined for 17 points in 4 games.
11	40-23-11	1	Reverted back to some “old time hockey” in their 4-0 loss to the Canucks Sunday night when a total of 105 penalty minutes were handed out in the 3rd period.
12	39-28-9	2	Chris Drury had a good week collecting 4 points in 3 games.
13	38-27-10	1	Great week for the trio of Alex Tanguay, Alex Kovalev and Saku Koivu as the three forwards combined for 19 points in 3 games.
14	39-29-8	1	Rick Nash enjoyed a great week posting 7 points in 4 games.
15	38-30-8	2	Picked a perfect time to go on a 3 game winning streak as they’re battling for a playoff spot in the ultra competitive Western Conference.
16	37-30-8	3	Just like the Preds, the Sabres picked a great time to go on a 3 game winning streak as well as they’re in a battle with the Canadiens and Panthers for the 8th and final playoff spot in the East.
17	37-28-11	2	Despite Cory Stillman‘s 6 point effort the Panthers were only able to collect 5 out of a possible 8 points last week.
18	37-30-9	4	Have been as hot as a blue flame the last two weeks and currently hold the 8th and final playoff spot in the West thanks to a 5 game winning streak.
19	38-32-6	1	Are trying their hardest to capture the 8th and final spot in the West going 7-3-0 in their last 10 games.
20	36-31-9	4	Have put a damper on their playoff hopes after going 1-4-0 in their last 5 games.
21	33-32-10	-	Congratulations to Brian Elliott who recorded his first career shutout in the Sens 3-0 win over the Lightning.
22	36-32-8	1	Marian Gaborik has looked great since coming back from injury and has 7 points in his last 5 games.
23	33-33-9	3	Currently on a 6 game winless streak after losing to the Canucks, Kings and Panthers last week.
24	32-38-6	1	Ilya Kovalchuk had yet another solid week this time collecting 6 points in 3 games.
25	31-32-13	1	The duo of Mikhail Grabovski and Alexei Ponikarovsky enjoyed another successful week this time combining for 10 points in 3 games.
26	31-33-11	-	Have gone 3-1-1 in their last 5 games.
27	31-37-7	-	Only 2 games last week in which they recorded a 3-2 win over the Oilers then suffered a loss to the Sharks by the same score.
28	24-35-17	1	Currently find themselves on a 3 game winless streak.
29	31-43-2	1	Currently on a 5 game losing streak after losing to the Canucks and Ducks twice last week.
30	25-41-9	-	The Islanders advertising their AHL affiliate’s playoff games on their website pretty much sums up the Islanders season this year.