Pens top Playoff Power Rankings

After this week, the Power Rankings machine goes back into the shed, its amazing sorting and calculating abilities protected under grandma's plastic cover. All I had to do was grab the little slips that popped out of it in order to decide where each team should be ranked and why. Here's how the slips came out this one last time, for the playoff field, which shall be considered our final 1-16.

As for the also-rans, we'll dispatch them in short order right now. 'Nuff said. 17. Buffalo Sabres 18. Dallas Stars 19. Colorado Avalanche 20. Calgary Flames 21. Tampa Bay Lightning 22. Winnipeg Jets 23. Carolina Hurricanes 24. Minnesota Wild 25. New York Islanders 26. Toronto Maple Leafs 27. Anaheim Ducks 28. Edmonton Oilers 29. Montreal Canadiens 30. Columbus Blue Jackets

Here's how all 16 playoff teams stack up.

2012 NHL Playoff Power Rankings