NHL Rankings!

NHL Power Rankings from 09-10 (kinda preliminary, some constants might be adjusted later).

Rank	Team	Record	PR	Schedule
1	Washington	54-28	1.971351978	0.897622912
2	Chicago	52-30	1.83689405	1.015734579
3	San Jose	51-31	1.604085453	1.04425634
4	Vancouver	49-33	1.60161888	0.997847038
5	Phoenix	50-32	1.284885124	1.046570781
6	Los Angeles	46-36	1.280345604	1.044849597
7	New Jersey	48-34	1.265161717	0.944877777
8	Buffalo	45-37	1.205482721	0.937670358
9	Detroit	44-38	1.1726501	1.063754376
10	Colorado	43-39	1.146104664	1.019181611
11	Pittsburgh	47-35	1.122893631	0.945574406
12	St Louis	40-42	1.094634453	1.04802023
13	Philadelphia	41-41	1.057873068	0.952982024
14	Nashville	47-35	1.034734645	1.055824315
15	Boston	39-43	1.014719416	0.948600448
16	NY Rangers	38-44	1.014680758	0.960645121
17	Calgary	40-42	0.988191313	1.033734957
18	Anaheim	39-43	0.945531872	1.069395612
19	Dallas	37-45	0.916399403	1.075699805
20	Montreal	39-43	0.891535366	0.947119358
21	Ottawa	44-38	0.828847814	0.952185525
22	Minnesota	38-44	0.815745702	1.057222185
23	Atlanta	35-47	0.775089497	0.955150235
24	Columbus	32-50	0.758758265	1.08525909
25	Carolina	35-47	0.743718177	0.958006177
26	Florida	32-50	0.695430488	0.973742079
27	NY Islanders	34-48	0.661466183	0.984849639
28	Tampa Bay	34-48	0.650924905	0.973139746
29	Toronto	30-52	0.59869451	0.975120685
30	Edmonton	27-55	0.568586705	1.076399338

Interesting to note is that you can tell whether a team is from the Western or Eastern Conference based off of only their strength of schedule (The Eastern Conference stinks). Darien loves it too.

RETRO PREDICTION: Blackhawks in 5. They win 79.3% of the time. It's okay this is just math so it's not biased by the wacky game 1. Go Blackhawks!!