My colleague Scott Burnside has handed over the Power Rankings duties to me for the month of November. After consulting with my dog, Lulu LeBrun (she's a four-year-old Australian Shepherd and she knows her hockey), I've come up with this week's rankings.
I was chatting with a GM from another team last week when, unsolicited, he brought up the Caps. "They are just so good again. Deep, talent everywhere. Going to be tough to beat," he said. Well yeah, I mean, we always say that. But is this finally the year? Perhaps.
It's funny -- back in August, when Jimmy Vesey picked the Blueshirts in his personal sweepstakes, I thought, "Why them?