Most teams have ten or eleven games left in the season and we have two weeks of games before the Winter Olympic break. The playoffs are on the horizon and it is time to see who are the contenders and pretenders. Here are the latest rankings!

Today's Ranking Last Ranking Trend Club Raw Score GP Score 1 1 0 SKA St. Petersburg 3466 44 78.8 2 2 0 Barys Astana 3042 43 70.7 3 3 0 Dynamo Moscow 2794 43 65.0 4 4 0 Ak Bars Kazan 2558 44 58.1 5 7 +2 KHL Medvescak 2359 43 54.9 6 5 -1 Metallurg MG 2277 43 53.0 7 9 +2 Donbass 2266 43 52.7 8 8 0 Dinamo Riga 2221 43 51.7 9 6 -3 Torpedo 2199 43 51.1 10 10 0 Lev Praha 2174 43 50.6 11 11 0 CSKA 2030 45 45.1 12 12 0 Salavat 1892 43 44.0 13 13 0 Avtomobilist 1918 45 42.6 14 14 0 Lokomotiv 1764 43 41.0 15 15 0 Admiral 1714 44 39.0 16 17 +1 Neftekhimik 1600 43 37.2 17 16 -1 Traktor 1588 43 36.9 18 19 +1 Avangard 1510 44 34.3 19 18 -1 Severstal 1458 43 33.9 20 20 0 Sibir 1341 44 30.5 21 21 0 Slovan Bratislava 1237 43 28.8 22 23 +1 Spartak 1207 42 28.7 23 22 -1 Atlant 1212 43 28.2 24 24 0 Vityaz 1069 44 24.3 25 25 0 Amur 1065 44 24.2 26 26 0 Ugra 890 43 20.7 27 27 0 Dinamo Minsk 862 42 20.5 28 28 0 Metallurg Nk 457 44 10.4

The top four teams in the league stayed the same. This is despite Metallurg Magnitogorsk currently having the best record in the Eastern Conference. Metallurg actually dropped a spot in the rankings, suggesting they are mostly beating bad teams, or teams they beat at the beginning of the season are not doing so well now.

The big movers up are KHL Medvescak Zagreb into the fifth spot and Donbass Donetsk into the seventh spot (both teams moved up two places). The big dropper was Torpedo Novgorod, down three spots. However, Torpedo is still ranked number nine overall in the rankings and fifth in the Eastern Conference. They likely will make the playoffs, but it appears they will not be much of a threat to take the Gagarin Cup.

Other interesting notes include Spartak Moscow moving up one spot although they have had a huge losing streak and Slovan not moving at all while they have been winning. This means the rankings are actually working! Spartak was not as good as advertised when they were near a Western Conference playoff spot and Slovan was not as bad as it seemed when they were dwelling at the bottom of the league. It appears the formula picked that up, but the actual standings were not reflecting this at the time. Atlant it appears will not likely get into the playoffs based on their drop in the rankings, unless they have a soft schedule ahead of them. Admiral Vladivostok has a good shot, sitting in the 15th spot and just one point below Traktor Chelyabinsk for the final spot in the Eastern Conference.

The formula for the Statistical Power Rankings can be found here. We hope you enjoy this installment with the playoffs just around the corner!