Can these teams hold onto their top 10 ranking through the long FNHL season?
1. PANTHERS 22-2Rolls with Price, Mrazek, and Budaj picked up on the cheap when everyone was asleep.
2. BLACKHAWKS 22-2Old man Ward tends the twine, Jamie Benn, MacKinnon, Seabrook & stud in the making Mark Scheifele take care of business up front.
3. REDWINGS 21-3Allen & Howard duo in net, Zuccarello & Tanner Pearson scoring a ton.
4. BRUINS 20-4 (last yr's semi-finalist)Rask & Talbot are backbone of franchise, Kevin Hayes & Pastrnak lead attack.
5. PREDATORS 19-5 (last yr's semi-finalist)Freddy Andersen & Gibson tandem backstop the Preds while Hornqvist, Lucic and Atkinson handle offense.
5. LIGTHNING 19-5Bishop & Niemi tend net with Stamkos (not anymore), Marcus Johansson, Alec Martinez & Gallagher racking up points.
7. PENGUINS 18-6 (last yr's finalist)MAF still posting enough goalie points for this team, Kunitz, J Staal and Sid get it done up front.
8. KINGS 17-7 (last yr's champ)Even with Quick down and out, Luongo offers enough in net, Tarasenko, Trocheck, Kucherov & Doughty scoring tons of skater pts for the defending Champs.
9. STARS 16-8Crawford still getting it done for the Stars and their new owner, after Hall and Clutterbuck there's some balanced scoring and depth.
9. AVALANCHE 16-8 Schneider doing it all in the blue paint, Burns leads the scoring with supporting cast of young guns Ehlers, Nylander, Vesey keeping pace with Pavelski, Radulov, Malkin. Lots of fire power here.