TOP FIVE
1) Detroit Red Wings (46-19-11): Don't tell the Red Wings that home ice advantage is not important. They have only lost four games at him in regulation time this season.
2) Minnesota Wild (45-24-8): The only question for the Wild is whether the team is peaking too early.
3) Dallas Stars (46-24-6): There are seven legitimate Stanley Cup contenders in the Western (Campbell!) Conference. Dallas is one of them.
4) Buffalo Sabres (49-20-7): Buffalo has been playing with what is essentially an AHL lineup and it is still winning. Four more points and the #1 seed in the Eastern (Wales!) Conference will belong to the Sabres.
5) Vancouver Canucks (46-23-7): How much can a money goaltender mean to a team? Ask Tampa Bay how it has felt about its goaltenders since Nikholai Khabibulin left town, and ask Vancouver about the play of Robert Luongo.
BOTTOM FIVE
1) Philadelphia Flyers (21-44-11): It's been many years since the Flyers were truly bad, but you have to give this team credit. It hasn't quit.
2) Edmonton Oilers (31-39-7): Was it really only last season that Edmonton was one game away from the Stanley Cup championship?
3) Phoenix Coyotes (29-42-5): No Hockey fan wants to see Wayne Gretzky's name associated with a bad team, but the Coyotes are unquestionably a bad team.
4) Washington Capitals (26-38-13): Outside of Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin, the Caps don't have much.
5) Chicago Black Hawks (27-40-9): The brief lift that Denis Savard gave to the team when he took over as head coach is LONG gone.
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