Eric Stephens’ NHL power rankings (Nov. 6, 2017)

There is a new team at the top as the previous No. 1 was knocked from its throne. To be precise, it was nudged off ever so slightly.
St. Louis is one of those teams that’s been consistently good but has yet to make its Stanley Cup playoff dreams become reality. Its run to the Western Conference finals two years ago was the longest in the postseason since getting to the NHL’s final four in 2001.
Those three consecutive Cup Final appearances upon the franchise’s birth in 1967 wer