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.
Note: Previous ranking for each team refers to the last edition, published on March 16. Points paces are through Tuesday’s games.
Previous ranking: 1
Points percentage: 0.742
Next seven days: vs. SJ (March 31), vs. PIT (Apr. 2), @ PIT (Apr. 5)
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