2024-25 NHL Season Opening Power Rankings

46 comments

1. The Central having 4 teams in the top 8 is nutty. Talk about murderer's row.

2. are you going to weezer on Saturday?

3. It's Hockey Guy Time Again!

4. Not a chance Panthers, and the Hockey Club is overdue , only the leafs have waited longer.. lol.

5. It's almost time!

6. Canes at 7 is very generous but I hope we live up to expectations there!

7. Thumbs up for puck board

8. You clearly aren't watching the sabres this preseason. 23 may be 16-19.

9. that vegas puck is fantastic. this season is shaping up to be just as chaotic as last season, arguably.

10. It's going to be a very interesting year in the Atlantic Division. The Panthers, Leafs, Bolts, and Bruins are all likely to remain playoff teams, While the Sens, Wings, and Sabres are looking to end their long playoff droughts, and have fan bases that might riot if they miss again.

11. "then you can start throwing microphones in their face and asking if they're distracted" 🤣

12. Drinking my zero sugar Strawberry Dr. Pepper and seeing Shannon conjure one from the ether was trippy

13. Boo birds signing in buffalo. #22 na shannon. Top #12 team all year long.

14. Which soda was that?

15. HEY! HEY! HEY! THG power rankings are back!

16. honesty i think edmonton is gonna be so bad

17. utah ahead of minnesota is hilarious. you know mn only missed the playoffs by a few points, right?

18. As a Panthers fan i'm very glad they're at number 1! They are more than just a playoff team.

19. This offseason was thankfully short

20. Tampa above the Bruins and Leafs is an odd choice

21. Anyone but the Boilers

22. Shannon absolute savage mode with that soda😂

23. Canucks at 11 is off. They are deeper than last seaon. At a minimum they are not behind Tampa, Jets are unlikely…… You struggled taking any risks at all.

24. Flames always screw things up. They will be lose there pick to Montreal

25. washington far too high

26. MN at 25… Woof.

27. LA Kings – I am not offended lol

28. Oilers are not going to start the same way as last season. They will be in the top spot from the beginning. This is their year!

29. To put the leafs a head of nucks is just foolish, leafs d is worse so is goaltending plus nucks forward group is deeper overall wtf

30. As a ducks fan I’m quite upset we ain’t 32!
    I wanna sing some Shania Twain all week long, but now I can’t!

31. props to trying to reverse jinx devils after the cup pick incident lol

32. Columbus are going to be much better than that.

33. You have to make an Ovechkin video. He is passing Gretzky this season. 900 early next season.

34. Yess, we are back!

35. When does the season start?

36. Boston only next to Washington seems a BIT underappreciated… Swayman contract will be done. After that they are top 7.

37. At least we're not in the bottom row!!! I hope the Sabres are actually good

38. i think alot of people are sleeping on calgary, not that i see them making the playoffs but theyre going to finish higher then 29th lets get real here. 24-26th is more realistic. who knows, if huberdeau figures it out and wolf plays like he did at the end of the year with all the young talent they very well could be in playoff talk. i really cant see them being much worse then last year

39. half of top 8 is central division holy moly

40. True but Trouba was the only guy that wouldn't take crap off of Florida…Kreider physical play was non existent…they need more physical

41. Tampa is going to depend on Vasy, if he has figured out the changes to his game post surgery it will be a fun season… if not im going to hate watching hockey this year.

42. Lets go baby!!

43. It's true that Detroit has improved every year since Stevie took over. However, it is this year that the team has marginally improved on paper for the first time. This year I think they will regress and it is most noticeable that they score less goals and lose more games than last year. I feel that other teams have gotten better and Redwing were lucky not to get a lot of injuries last year, difficult to manage two years in a row.

    They have lost goalscoring in the bottom 6, they have improved defensively in the bottom 6 in the form of new faces. However, most people know that Redwing cannot play a 200th game of hockey. They are forced to rely on their youth to take on more responsibility than what they wets do. Annoys many fans as there are many who have a fairly good salary in the bottom six.

    Redwing may have the most expensive press box in the NHL in the upcoming season. Stevie can't get rid of the contracts he chose to sign over the last few years. Some of it the team gets rid of first S25/26 e.g. Husso, Holl & Co. This means we will see several from GR that season. Until then, the roller coaster will be visible just as it was last year.

44. hockey is officially back

45. Isles will finish with 99 points and take the metro 3. Canes take wc1 w/ 97 and sens take wc2 w/ 93. Isles got 94 points last year with a terrible coaching staff up until January, the worst pk in the game and a bad year from sorokin. With additions made and coaching fixed, you’ll only need 1 of sorokin or the pk to improve for the isles to push 100

46. Boston at 13 is criminal