Week 5 has come and gone and now we are heading into playoffs.
Before we got into the playoff talk though we will take a quick look at how each team performed their final week heading into Playoffs.
Last week’s stats:
This week’s stats:
Washington finally wins more than 5 games in a week!
Calgary and Philadelphia battled hard to the end for the #1 spot in the league but I believe Philadelphia just came up a bit short.
Week 5 Trends:
Philadelphia has gone back to their week 1 and 2 ways going 8-1-0 this week.
Washington showing a lot of improvement heading into round 1 of playoffs.
Calgary has remained consistent these past 3 weeks and will likely continue their consistent play into playoffs.
Sharks and Kings underperformed this week heading into playoffs.
Here are the final regular season power rankings of S45:
| POWER RANKINGS | ||||
| RANK | TEAM | WK 4 | DIFF | RECAP |
| 1 | Calgary Flames | 2 | 0 | Flames finished off the season strong going 7-1-1 this week beating the Sharks twice and Carolina once. They managed to come out with the President trophy as well in a tiebreaker with Philadelphia. These guys look to be the favorite to come out of the Western Conference. |
| 2 | Philadelphia Flyers | 1 | 0 | Philadelphia looks to be back to their week 1 and 2 ways after going 8-1-0 this week. They’ve been the top dog all season, performed when it mattered most, and came so close to taking back the #1 spot in the league from Calgary. They are looking to be the cup favorites as they always have since Week 1. |
| 3 | San Jose Sharks | 3 | 0 | Sharks had a decent week going 6-3-0, they lost 2 games to Calgary and 1 to Philadelphia. The Sharks consistency of play has been all over the place this season and if they want to make a cup run, they will need to figure it out. |
| 4 | Washington Capitals | 8 | +4 | Washington goes 6-3-0 this week! Amazing! Their best win of the week came against Carolina, and they did have a favorable finish to the week vs the lesser teams… (compared to some of the other teams’ schedules in week 5) But hey, they climbed up to the 2nd spot in the East and now they got some home ice for round 1. |
| 5 | Carolina Hurricanes | 4 | -1 | Carolina’s availability has been an issue all season. When their top 6 show up these guys have proven to be a force, but when they don’t, they’ve had tight games but its 50/50 whether they win or lose. With another 2 FF L’s this week these guys move down in the power rankings to finish the regular season. |
| 6 | Colorado Avalanche | 6 | 0 | Colorado comes through with another winning record week (5-4-0) and beat top teams Philly and Calgary, they’ve shown the most improvement after trade deadline and will look to continue their run into playoffs. |
| 7 | Los Angeles Kings | 7 | 0 | LA had a bad week heading into playoffs only getting 2 wins. Cuban and his boys better get their ‘act’ (didn’t say shit so it’s proper for Karl) together for playoffs cause they have a tough matchup in Calgary to be ready for. |
| 8 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 9 | +1 | If Buffalo didn’t FF their 3 games on Friday I don’t think these guys would’ve made playoffs, but they got some luck and now they have an opportunity to be a wildcard. After having a 4-5-0 week (With 2 FF W’s) these guys do not look playoff ready. They’ll need to tighten some things up and not be trolls if they want to have a legit shot in their 1st round matchup. |
| 9 | Buffalo Sabres | 5 | -4 | RIP, this Buffalo squad had so much more potential than they showed this season. They FF all 3 of their last games and put themselves out of playoffs. Very disappointing season for the Sabres, but on a good note they get to sit back and relax and enjoy some off-season time. |
| 10 | Vegas Golden Knights | 10 | 0 | Vegas, tough season overall. Respect for getting the guys to show and play and put in a good effort (most games) and not being a FF team. I hope you get 1st overall pick next season Shock, you deserve a better fate than what you ended up with this season. Also, great job putting up with Lispdoge, couldn’t have been easy. |
Good luck to everyone who made playoffs, for those who didn’t (Buffalo and Vegas) it was fun playing with you guys but unfortunately someone must be last in their conference, and this time it happened to be you guys.
Stay tuned for the playoff preview which will be coming out on Monday (hopefully).
Randymarsh2012