With more than a week since the 2021-22 NHL trade deadline, it's given us a small taste of all the traded players suiting up for their new teams -- for better or worse.
For this week's Power Rankings, we've added notes on how the players acquired this trade season have performed in this way-too-early timeframe.
How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey commentators, analysts, reporters and editors rates teams against one another -- taking into account game results, injuries and upcoming schedule -- and those results are tabulated to produce the list featured here.