{"id":725766,"date":"2026-06-09T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:25:11","slug":"power-rankings-for-every-team-not-in-the-2026-stanley-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725766\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Rankings for Every Team Not in the 2026 Stanley Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wondering how a Presidents&#8217; Trophy and a run to the Western final can be considered a flop? Look no farther than Colorado. The Avs bested the NHL field by eight points in the regular season and won eight of nine games through two rounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But a sweep by Vegas left a bad taste. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Humility is certainly a word you use for it,&#8221; coach Jared Bednar <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48888497\/avalanche-swept-playoffs-golden-knights-dominant-regular-season\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s sports in general. I think you&#8217;re going to run into that a lot on any given day on any given year, and especially in the playoffs, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wondering how a Presidents&#8217; Trophy and a run to the Western final can be considered a flop? Look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-725766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}