West Week 4 Power Rankings
One week left until playoffs and plenty of teams making moves to prepare here are how things played out this week in the West leading up to the final week of the Regular season
#1 Arizona 8-1 for week 4
Arizona with yet another strong week and only one loss to St. Louis 6-4 as their only blemish. Going into week 5 they have the opportunity to win the President Trophy for best record. Week 5 also presents this team an opportunity to measure up possible Stanley Cup Final opponents with games versus NJ and Toronto Monday. Other than Monday this team is going through the motions finishing up the season and really gearing up for the playoffs in what seems as an inevitable appearance in the Finals.
Week 5 Predication: 7-2
#2 St. Louis 7-2 for week 4
St. Louis answered a lot of questions this week after having a 5-4 week in week 3 by going 7-2 in week 4 with losses to Seattle 6-5 Monday and Toronto 3-1 Friday they avenged the loss to Seattle later this week with a 6-5 win and also added a big win versus Arizona 6-4. For week 5 St. Louis has locked the #2 seed up and have really only 3 games that can hand them losses against Arizona, Seattle and Colorado who are all playoff teams. With the playoffs around the corner and this lineup finding it’s chemistry could lead into some really sweaty hockey next week.
Week 5 Predication: 8-1
#3 Seattle 6-3 for week 4
Seattle had a nice week but took 3 losses to the top two teams in the West (Arizona loss2 and St. Louis split 1-1). But they weren’t honestly that bad in those losses. But the big thing this team can takeaway from week 4 is they can compete with those top two teams and could definitely make some noise in 2 weeks when the playoffs start. Week 5 presents this team with an option. Battle out to hold on to the 3 seed and face St. Louis in round one or take the week off slide down to the 4 seed and play Arizona. With their schedule for week 5 lined up with 7 games against all teams in the playoffs they will have the opportunity to measure themselves going into the playoffs and making a decision on what path they’d like to take
Week 5 Predication: 4-5
#4 Colorado 4-5 for week 4
Going into week 4 the question about this team was “Are they able to compete with the top teams going to the playoffs?” The answer “No” with losses to all the teams in the playoffs with winning records and wins only against the bottom two teams in the West. Colorado has locked up the 4 spot in the playoffs and depending on what Seattle does in week 5 they may move into the 3 spot but will they figure out what they need to do to play against the teams like Arizona or St. Louis to push them over the top and make a run. Week 5 presents itself as a possible strong week as they play some very winnable games that then lead up to 3 games vs the top west teams setting up the final measure for this team.
Week 5 Predication: 6-3
#5 LA 1-8 for week 4
Moving up to the 5 spot is LA. Great job by this team showing up to just about every game this week with only 1 forfeit. Their only win was against Chicago but a win is a win regardless of the opponent. They almost beat NYI on Friday also so they got some traction going into week 5. Which for this team getting to this point without a change of GM and only one forfeit all season is kudos to Sports for still keeping his commitment to the league and to at least put guys on the ice every night looking to play. Regardless of what anyone says or feel I appreciate the effort Sports and I personally want to say Thank you buddy and keep up the amazing job. Lots of people think it’s easy being a GM until they are and many quit or give up and ruin the experience for many players who played on the team and you’ve done a phenomenal job pushing through and to all the players who played for you or filled in I tip my hat to you for playing and being available and I am sure you’ll find a spot on a roster next season.
Week 5 Prediction: 1-8
#6 Chicago 0-9 for week 4
Chicago is this weeks “Under New Management” team as hypey is out and Bmarche is in
This team forfeited 5 of their first 6 games week 4 and under Bmarche played all 3 Friday and my hope is that he gets enough guys to play all 9 for week 5. I understand that there is currently a small pool of players to fill in if there are availability issues but if
Coffey-lidstrom, Dedstarks, shrEd_Slice, xLoyalty96, donutspenton, Shock_r can show up and give Bmarche guys to play and they don’t forfeit any games it’s a huge plus and a great finish for this team. Week 5 gives Chicago a shot at possibly 2 winnable games and an opportunity to throw monkey wrench against any of the top playoff teams
Week 5 Predication: 1-8
So week 4 is in the books and week 5 drama at this point comes down to the final 8 teams that are making the playoffs getting their teams situated for a run at the Cup. I will not have a week 5 power ranking but I will have a West Round 1 playoff matchup article.
Here’s to hopefully playing an entire week without a GM switch or a forfeit.
Cuban