Welcome to a month with actual hockey. Let's 'Bag:
@JapersRink How would you rank the Metro division teams, going from strongest to weakest? Is there an obvious best of the division?
— Leigh Weisblat (@ReaderLeigh) September 1, 2015
I'll start by ranking the other teams in the Division, and with the reigning champs, the Rangers - until someone gives me a compelling reason to think otherwise, I'm going to have the Presidents' Trophy winners as the Metro favorites.
The Penguins and Isles fall in behind the Rangers, and the Blue Jackets are next in line, followed by the Flyers, Hurricanes and Devils (though those last three are in a somewhat interchangeable lower tier and the first four could shake out differently as well).