Another week into the NHL season, and the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights continue to roll. That's not a major surprise, though the hot starts for the Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens do qualify as at least mild shocks.
For this week's Power Rankings, we tried to distill each team's season thus far into a single word -- whether good, bad or somewhere in between.
How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey commentators, analysts, reporters and editors each send in a 1-32 poll based on the games through Wednesday, which generates our master list here.