Eric Stephens’ NHL power rankings (Nov. 13, 2017)

When you’re already one of the NHL’s best teams and then you proceed to do a clean sweep through California, you deserve to sit above the rest. For a week. Or maybe more, in this case.
Tampa Bay has made its absence from the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring look like the one-year respite it really was. The Lightning had Steven Stamkos for only 17 games and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy was learning how to be a regular starter. And they still won 42 games and missed a playoff spot by a po