Power Rankings: Week 1

With each team having played two games in Silver South this season, it is time to do every one's favorite thing: power rankings. Is two games a big enough sample to truly form an opinion on a team? No, but as I mentioned earlier, I'm trying to eclipse last year's 115 posts, and I'm no where near. So read the power rankings, then comment about how you didn't get some not-so-obscure literary reference you easily would have enjoyed had you just paid attention in class.

(Bonus points if you can pick up on the "fairly" easy reference without clicking on the link. My money is on Andy)

So, to the Power Rankings Machine 3000!

1. Prestige Worldwide: They're always a feisty team, and so far this season they're also undefeated. Did I mention they are averaging 9 goals a game. Yeah, they have the top spot and it's not even close.
2. Strangers: The only other remaining undefeated team in the division. The stat that makes them scary? They are averaging a division best 4 goals against per game. Ahhh, I love it early in the season when averages are full integers.
3. Cryptic Stench: What? How? They are 0-2! True. But they lost both of their games to the previous two teams, and by a combined three goals. Don't expect them to dwell in the cellar much longer.
4. Trailside: I'm not sold on this team being able to continue .500 hockey, but for the time being, they "earned" the four seed.
5. Red Army: What was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Comrades this season has been any but. They could easily be 0-2, but thanks to some late game heroics against the Lame Ducks, they remain relevant. For now, the hockey community waits with bated breath to see if we're seeing a Soviet collapse or merely the calm before the storm.
6. Lame Ducks: Valiant efforts against the Red Army and Strangers, but ended up coming up short in both contests. Still, maybe we'll see a mid season renaissance that Hans Christian Andersen himself couldn't have drafted. But that's mostly because he is now dead.

So that is what the high tech Power Rankings Machine 3000 came up with. Don't agree? Sorry, you're not as high tech and you are also fallible, so you are wrong.

Red Army vs. Strangers tonight at 11.