2015-16 Consensus NHL Power Rankings – Week 8

After being tied for top spot with the New York Rangers last week, the Dallas Stars sit alone on top this week in our weekly consensus NHL power rankings. Four of eight media outlets had the Stars ranked first, with three having the Washington Capitals at No. 1.

The Rangers, who were tied for first last week, dropped down to fifth. The Montreal Canadiens held steady at No. 3, but they’ll be in tough without Carey Price and Brendan Gallagher. The St. Louis Blues moved up one spot to No. 4.

Since we had 8 entries in this weeks NHL power rankings, we’ve dropped the highest and lowest totals for each team.

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.

** Keep in mind the dates the rankings were posted, and in some cases, they may have been submitted to their editors the day before it was posted **

RK	Team	PTS	PVS	TSN Dec. 1	SI Dec. 1	CBS Dec 1	ESPN Nov. 30	SN Nov. 30	CSN Mid Atl. Nov. 30	Fox Nov. 30	BR Nov. 29
1		177	T1
2		174	4
3		169	3
4		159	5
5		153	T1
6		148	T7
7		143	11
8		136	6
9		126	10
10		125	15
11		117	9
12		108	17
13		104	T7
		104	T12
15		102	T12
16		95	14
17		87	19
18		82	16
19		68	20
20		56	21
21		53	18
22		50	22
23		48	23
24		43	26
25		42	28
26		32	27
27		27	24
28		21	29
29		6	25
30		6	30