NHL weekend rankings: Jets unbeatable, Bruins a question mark, Penguins a mess
If you’re a hockey fan and you love power rankings, you got some great news a few days ago: The Friday rankings have returned.
There’s a common misconception out there that there’s some sort of rivalry between those rankings and these ones. But there isn’t, because we’re trying to do different things. These rankings are the long-term view, while the Friday boys are more of an immediate snapshot. I do my thing, Dom and Other Sean do theirs, and the readers win. A rivalry? Not even close.
They were a few weeks late to the season, though, especially since we’ve already been hard at work on two weeks’ worth of rankings under our belt. I wonder why that was. Let’s see what they had to say about that:
“Sure, we could’ve assembled our little list last week — but there were teams that had only played three games. It felt wrong. Integrity counts, professionally and personally, and some sample sizes are simply too small.”
(Does an extended Kubrik Stare off into the middle distance like Gary Roberts before a playoff game.)
Integrity? Right, screw those guys, a rivalry it is. Here are five issues I had with the first set of rankings from those two Taylor Swift lyric-loving weirdos.
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