Welcome everyone to my new weekly analysis of each team’s weekly performance. With what seems to have been a much different week for most teams than last I thought it would be interesting to show where each team has improved, maintained, or regressed in week 3 compared to week 2.
Below you will see each teams’ stats for Week 2 and Week 3, then under that is a table that shows the difference between each week’s performance (Green means good, red means bad).
Carolina and Calgary both going 8-1 this week. Sharks have a tough week losing 5 games.
This table shows the difference in wins, losses, etc… from Week 2 to Week 3
Sharks showing the worst point differential in Week 3 having 8 less points than Week2, but their goal differential is only -1.
Maple Leafs had a tougher week keeping games close compared to week 2 with a -31 goal differential.
Flames and Hurricanes had great weeks with +39 and +35 goal differentials from the week before.
Washington finally seeing some green in their stats by having a +14 goal differential from the week before and 1 more win.
Colorado also showing slight improvement, but Christ, hard not to improve after the week 2 they had.
Sabres also showing signs of falling off in Week 3, look to them to be one of the more improved teams in week 4.
Here are the power rankings for Week 3:
| POWER RANKINGS | ||||
| RANK | TEAM | WK 2 | DIFF | RECAP |
| 1 | Carolina Hurricanes | 4 | +2 | Carolina finally made it to the party ladies and gentlemen. Going 8-1-0 this week with their one loss in a 2-1L to Philadelphia, these guys offence is finally starting to reach its full potential. Doranz taking a step back from Fwd and playing D for these guys may be the biggest change they made to start seeing success. Expect these guys to keep narrowing the gap to catch the Flyers. |
| 2 | Calgary Flames | 5 | +3 | Calgary has a big bounce back week going 8-1-0 and only allowing 14 goals against in 8 games (1 FFW) puts these guys 2nd in the power rankings. They made a trade to acquire LW karlssonisgod as well so expect these guys to hold onto the #1 spot in the West with a defined top 6. |
| 3 | Philadelphia Flyers | 1 | -2 | Philly went 5-3-1 this week which is their worst one so far this season. Although they had a couple tough L’s, they are staying consistent, so I don’t expect these guys to fall any lower than 3rd in a power rankings. Their trade to acquire KyleJ and Sniiider makes these top 6 even stronger now, we’ll see if it is enough to maintain top dog in the league. |
| 4 | San Jose Sharks | 2 | -2 | A disappointing 4-5 week for the Sharks, they lost 4 in a row heading into Friday but managed to save face by going 3-0 on Friday. The Sharks defense let down the forwards this week allowing 14 more GA than the previous week. Having said that the Sharks acquired 2 dmen at the deadline so there could be some hope of getting that dumbass Randymarsh off the blueline and putting someone better there. |
| 5 | Buffalo Sabres | 3 | -2 | These Sabres had a tough week, going 3-6-0 is their worst week by far and taking some tough L’s to Colorado and Toronto. Their availability and lack of goaltending seem to be their biggest issues, but they made a trade at the deadline acquiring binklee and illusionz, so as long as the availability tidies itself up expect a big week out of these guys. |
| 6 | Washington Capitals | 8 | +2 | Washington finally has a positive week going 5-4-0, these guys have consistently lost a minimum of 4 games a week and being in a tough division I don’t expect that to get better anytime soon. Eggman decided to make no moves at the deadline or at all this season so I think he must be ok being 6th best team in the League. Kind of a gutless move to not even attempt to improve your own team at some point in the season. |
| 7 | Los Angeles Kings | 7 | 0 | 3-6-0 week for the Kings, I think its arguably their worst week of the season so far. Big 6-2 W coming against the Sharks mid-week but followed it with a disappointing 11-1 loss which they quit midway through the 3rd period. Cuban did make 1 move though, grabbing complexiti for ivanthygreat at the deadline, hopefully that move will give these guys a few more options on offence. |
| 8 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 6 | -2 | The Leafs didn’t have a terrible week in the standings going 4-5-0, but they allowed 37 more goals against than the week before, so I think Devon took off the Monster Truck Wheels off his Goalie and put them on his dman instead logging 100 hits so far in 7 games. Devon decided to make a lot of trades this week moving Banana, Curtis, Karlsson, complexiti and acquiring Buckley, Heedless, Teamrun, Ivanthygreat, and Alonzi, these guys will remain somewhat competitive, but I think they will remain at the bottom of the East until the end of the season. |
| 9 | Colorado Avalanche | 10 | +1 | Colorado has a big 3-6-0 week which is a 3-point improvement from last week. Climbing back into a playoff spot ahead of Vegas. They did make one trade in which they got Salda, Clake, and Cabrelix. This trade should help their offence a bit, but I think they’re going to have a tougher time keeping pucks out of their net with the loss of illusions and binklee. It’ll be a battle right to the end between Vegas and Colorado for the final playoff spot. |
| 10 | Vegas Golden Knights | 9 | -1 | Golden Knights fell out of their playoff spot having a 2-7-0 week, they made a big trade moving their top D in KyleJ and strong Fwd in Sniiider and got back Jcpens (who hasn’t played since week 1), spelliscy and megga. Hopefully Jcpens shows up for these guys but if he wasn’t showing up for the top team, I doubt he’ll show up for the worst team. Shockr will battle for that playoff spot until the end so don’t count these guys out just yet though. |
Carolina and Calgary at the top this week with drops from the Flyers, Sharks, and Sabres. Washington makes a nice climb up to the 6th spot as well.
Now that the trade deadline has passed it will be interesting to see which teams show improvement and which teams drop. I expect to see a lot of flip flopping still in the top 5, but the bottom 5 seem to have made trades that didn’t make their teams a whole lot better. Time will tell though.
Tune in next week for another trash article.
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