LOS ANGELES – The NHL season is entering its second month and as we get November underway, the time is right to break out the new rankings.
Any number of surprises grace the rankings including the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes.
The question is whether these teams will be around as the season heads to playoff seeding.
Here is the PHN Power Ranking Poll for November.
| LAST | RANK | TEAM | BARTNICK’s TAKE |
| 5 | 1 | PREDATORS | Forsberg and Arvidsson are underrated and amazing. |
| * | 2 | LIGHTNING | They have so many forwards it’s embarrassing. |
| 4 | 3 | PENGUINS | They either dismantle teams or giveaway games in the slot. |
| 7 | 4 | MAPLE LEAFS | Matthews is out. Time for John Tavares to earn his contract. |
| 17 | 5 | AVALANCHE | Colorado’s top line is the best in the NHL. |
| 2 | 6 | JETS | They’re a great power team. They’re only a very good finesse team. |
| 3 | 7 | SHARKS | Karlsson is fitting in on offense. Defense not so much. |
| 8 | 8 | BRUINS | Every Boston team has Championship or bust mentality. |
| 22 | 9 | WILD | Eric Staal gets younger every year Minnesota. |
| 1 | 10 | CAPITALS | The know the regular doesn’t matter |
| 25 | 11 | BLACKHAWKS | Jonathan Toews is alive and scoring. |
| 19 | 12 | OILERS | McDavid is awesome. He is also getting a little more help this year. |
| 29 | 13 | CANUCKS | Elias Petterson is the superstar Vancouver has never had. |
| 23 | 14 | Hurricanes | Aho is the best player you’ve never seen play a full game. |
| 18 | 15 | FLAMES | Calgary must have a good team. James Neal is on the 3rd line. |
| 21 | 15 | ISLANDERS | Johnny who? Trotz is back coaching Nashville. No superstars. |
| 29 | 17 | CANADIENS | Claude Julien is a great coach. |
| 26 | 18 | SABRES | Looking improved but it’s early. Zach Bogosain isn’t even hurt yet. |
| 15 | 19 | BLUE JACKETS | Korpisalo is replacing Bobo and Bobo hasn’t left yet. |
| 16 | 20 | STARS | The Big line scores more points than the Cowboys. |
| 9 | 21 | DEVILS | Started like a bat out of Sweden now cooling off. |
| 27 | 22 | COYOTES | The Desert Dogs have grabbed teams by the shorties. Short handed goals. |
| 6 | 23 | GOLDEN KNIGHTS | Sequels never live up to the original. |
| 20 | 24 | RANGERS | New coach David Quinn is winning respect and a few games. |
| 14 | 25 | DUCKS | The Ducks are hanging John Gibson out like wet laundry. |
| 30 | 26 | SENATORS | They have more pride than most US Senators. |
| 10 | 27 | FLYERS | It’s not all goaltending. |
| 12 | 28 | BLUES | Jake Allen is just not good too many times. |
| 13 | 29 | KINGS | Are the Kings too slow to make a trade? |
| 24 | 30 | RED WINGS | Jonathan Bernier might save Jeff Blashill’s job. |
| 11 | 31 | PANTHERS | Only place to go is up. |
