NHL 2022-23 Season Weekly Power Rankings: Monday 12/12

24. Vancouver Canucks

The Vancouver Canucks have had a relatively strong last few weeks, but it is deceiving. In their last ten, the Canucks are 6-4-0, but those wins are coming against teams like San Jose, Arizona, and Montreal, to name a few. Sure they did have two big wins against Vegas and Colorado early to start this ten-game win streak, but every other win since then came in overtime against poor teams.

23. Montreal Canadiens

This past week Montreal went 1-1-1 against three Pacific Division teams. They beat the Seattle Kraken, lost in overtime to the Vancouver Canucks, and lost to the LA Kings 4-2 on Saturday. This Canadiens team is really playing above expected in 2022, it will be interesting to see if they can continue to be this good in 2023 or if they will fall down to earth a bit.

22. St. Louis Blues

Wow, the St. Louis Blues are a streaky team. The Blues are 2-7-1 in their last ten games, only the Chicago Blackhawks were worse than that in ten games across the entire league. St. Louis went 1-2-1 in their last four games this past week, beating the New York Islanders while losing to the Rangers and Jets. Yesterday they lost to the Avalanche in overtime. A lot is going wrong for the Blues this season, yet somehow it does not seem completely hopeless if they can go on another streak of winning games.

21. Nashville Predators

The Nashville Predators just keep on moving forward as a competitive team. They are currently 12-11-2 with 26 points, good enough for fifth in the Central Division. I am still confused by the decision to put Eeli Tolvanen on waivers, but overall, things are going better than expected in Nashville.