The trade deadline has officially passed, which means this is a good time to check in with our power rankings. With just a little over a month remaining in the NHL season, most teams have less than 20 games left to play. We’ve entered the final quarter of the season and the playoff picture is going to solidify over the next five weeks or so.
If you’ve been following along this season, the power rankings are based on a Bradley-Terry model, which is a pairwise ranking system. We feed individual game results into the model and the outputs are measures of how good each team is based on their individual game results.