Hey everyone, we here at Yahoo Sports are doing real power rankings for teams Nos. 1-31. Here they are, based on only how I am feeling about these teams, meaning you can’t tell me I’m wrong because these are my feelings and feelings can’t be wrong. Please enjoy the Power Feelings.

31. Florida Panthers (Last week: 25)

Once again this week, I will be doing this very mathematically: For the first four weeks of the season, teams are sorted 31-1 by win percentage. First tiebreaker is win total. Second tiebreaker is goal difference. Third tiebreaker is shot difference. I have not needed a fourth tiebreaker yet, but if I do I’ll figure it out.

I’m just trying to get a baseline here, and I don’t totally agree with a lot of these (i.e. the No. 1 team in the league below is not the No. 1 team in the league in real life, but they’re also undefeated in three games with a plus-10 goal difference, so..)

Anyway, with that in mind, obviously I don’t think the Panthers are the worst team in the league. But they’re 0-2-1 through their first three games and that’s, like, bad. They’re losing by narrow margins and the lingering questions you might have had about their depth scoring aren’t being answered yet. They’ll figure it out, but it’s not the start they want.

30. Detroit Red Wings (LW: 28)

On the other hand, Detroit at 30 feels juuuuuuust about right.

29. New York Rangers (LW: 31)

28. Arizona Coyotes (LW: 30)

27. Edmonton Oilers (LW: 29)

Not that I have a ton to say about how bad this team is when McDavid is off the ice that I didn’t say yesterday, but let me just further illustrate things: Over the course of his career, the Oilers are a minus-45 goal difference team in all situations (and that includes the half-season McDavid missed due to injury as a rookie). But with McDavid on the ice, they’re PLUS-ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT.

If that kinda stat sounds familiar, please recall that while Taylor Hall was an Oiler, they were a minus-296 team despite his personally going plus-92 from over several years. Which, like, obviously McDavid is way better than Taylor Hall (and Taylor Hall was the league MVP last year, you’ll remember) but they ran Hall out of town despite the team being truly truly truly pathetic without him and if they miss the playoffs this year, I think we all agree that they should trade McDavid for Rasmus Ristolainen. One-for-one.

Anyway, point is, there’s no “1b” for best player in the league. McDavid is such an “in a class by himself” kinda player that it’s an absolutely absurd thing to suggest anyone has even moved into his neighborhood.

26. Vegas Golden Knights (LW: 22)

I’m very sure they’re gonna figure it out at some point because they’re absolutely kicking the hell out of teams, process-wise, but they only have 10 goals in six games and neither Fleury nor Subban can make a save. It would be funny, I guess, if they didn’t get a bounce all year then won the draft lottery.

25. Minnesota Wild (LW: 27)

24. St. Louis Blues (LW: 26)

This is gonna shock you but Jake Allen looks horrible so far, and the rest of the team only looks mediocre. Which, I think most of us thought they took a step forward this summer, improving up the middle as they did. But man, I dunno. I’ve never been a big Mike Yeo guy and maybe that’s a thing I was right about in the end.

Even leaving aside Allen being horrible again, there’s no way a team with this much talent should be this mediocre.

23. Philadelphia Flyers (LW: 15)

22. San Jose Sharks (LW: 20)

In six games, the Sharks have 231 shots on goal, only allowed 162, and are somehow 2-3-1. That’s an all-situations PDO of 96.4, and if you watched these guys even once, you’ve seen about 600 Grade-A chances not go in. They look incredible and can’t score, plus Martin Jones is being dramatically outperformed by Aaron Dell, despite Dell y’know Not Being the starter.

If they figure the goaltending situation out (or if it figures itself out), this team is gonna start winning every game by two goals a night. They look that scary.

21. Los Angeles Kings (LW: 11)

Well-documented that I was fairly skeptical of this team all last year and coming into this season, even if adding Ilya Kovalchuk improves the offense on paper. But I don’t care if it’s Oct. 15 or April 15: If Alex Iafallo is your leading scorer at any point you don’t really have the offense to make stuff happen.

Story continues