Here is our initial/preseason NHL Power Rankings Consensus for the 2015-16 season. The rankings for each of the media outlets were almost all posted this past week, with most coming in the past couple days.
Throughout the season we will continue to track our consensus rankings, with posting to most likely occur on Wednesday’s.
To get our consensus point total, we awarded the top team 30 points, the second team 29 points, third team 28 points, etc. Added each teams total points and divided by the number of outlets used.
| RK | Team | PTS | SN | TSN | ESPN | FOX Sports | SI | NESN | USA Today | The Buffalo News | CSN Mid Atlantic | Bleacher Report | Covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 323 | |  |  | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | | 318 | |  | | | | | |  | | | |
| 3 | | 288 | | | |  | | | | | |  |  |
| 4 | | 286 |  | | | | | | | | |  | |
| 5 | | 277 | |  |  | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | | 257 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | | 257 | |  | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | | 243 |  | | | | | | | | | | |
| 9 | | 235 | | | | | | | | | | |  |
| 10 | | 234 | | | | |  | | | | | | |
| 11 | | 234 | | | | | |  | | | | |  |
| 12 | | 202 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 13 | | 191 | | | | | | | | |  | | |
| 14 | | 189 |  | | | | | | | |  | | |
| 15 | | 183 | | | | | | | | |  | | |
| 16 | | 178 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 17 | | 162 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 18 | | 138 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 19 | | 134 | | | | | | | |  | | | |
| 20 | | 133 | | | | | | | | | | |  |
| 21 | | 123 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 22 | | 105 | |  |  | | | | | | | | |
| 23 | | 91 | | |  | | | | | | | | |
| 24 | | 78 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 25 | | 77 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 26 | | 61 | | |  | | | | | | | | |
| 27 | | 39 |  | | | | | | | | | | |
| 28 | | 38 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 29 | | 29 | | |  | | | | | | | | |
| 30 | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | |