The Rangers move up to their highest position in a while after looking unstoppable last week, while the Capitals are...
We’ve only got four weeks left until the playoffs are underway, and the different tiers of teams are really starting to show in the rankings. You’ve got the top-heavy elite teams of the East, then pretty much every playoff contender in the West before you find anymore of the East contenders, and then wrapping up the list are the teams in no-man’s land and the lottery contenders.
As I’ve done so far this season, I’ll be ranking teams not just on their results in the standings but also with how they’ve looked in several stats as well. Otherwise I’d just copy and paste the standings, right? No fun in that. The rankings are an aggregate of six different stats: points %, 5-on-5 goal differential, 5-on-5 xGF/60, 5-on-5 xGA/60, power play xGF/60, and shorthanded xGA/60, all coming courtesy of Natural Stat Trick.
And now that we have our first team clinching a playoff spot, I’ve added another rule that teams that haven’t clinched a playoff spot can’t be ahead of teams that have, although I feel like the five-point rule will prevent that from coming into play anyways.
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