{"id":261095,"date":"2025-10-30T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:24:14","slug":"nhl-power-rankings-has-surprising-top-10-with-devils-penguins-red-wings-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261095\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Power Rankings Has Surprising Top 10 with Devils, Penguins, Red Wings on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kudos to the prescient hockey-watchers among us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Given their respective No. 16, No. 21, and No. 24 slots in last season&#8217;s overall standings, it would have taken a true ice guru to suggest the New Jersey Devils, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins would occupy lofty positions through the opening furlong of the 2025-26 NHL schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Yet, we are approaching Halloween, and the trio is 22-7-2 through its first 31 collective games, earning the respect of voters in this week&#8217;s B\/R Power Rankings, where the Devils took first, the Penguins fourth and the Red Wings eighth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Meanwhile, the Calgary Flames sit at the other end of the heap, taking the 32nd and final position for the second straight week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">B\/R&#8217;s hockey staff awarded 32 points for a first-place vote all the way down to one point for a No. 32 vote in compiling the rankings, which saw a 17-spot drop for the St. Louis Blues (13th to 30th) and a 12-spot rise for the Dallas Stars (22nd to 10th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the app comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">(All stats and records are updated through games on Tuesday, Oct. 28.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kudos to the prescient hockey-watchers among us. Given their respective No. 16, No. 21, and No. 24 slots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-261095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}