🏒 2026-27 NHL season

In progress, no champion yet. Carolina Hurricanes is top rated, at 1585.

32 teams · 3 weeks · through 2026-10-18 · Elo series by Neil Paine; era names, honours and brackets from NHL.xlsx

The race

Elo rating by week. Higher is stronger; 1500 is average.

How this is measured

Elo moves after every game by how surprising the result was, with an adjustment for home ice, a rest day and the playoffs. One pool per season, so ratings compare across the whole league but not across eras.

Week 0 is the preseason seed, carried over from last season with a pull back toward average. It is an input to the season, not a result of it.

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Tap or drag on the chart: the nearest team's rating that week.

Elo power rankings, 2026-27

Every club's rating after week 3, updated each morning, and what the week did to it.

How this is measured
Elo moves after every game by the margin and by how surprising the result was, so this is a running answer to “how good is this team right now” rather than a table of who has won most. 1500 is the league average by construction. It is the same rating that runs the season pages back to 1917-18, so this season and any other are on one scale. Movement is against the previous rated week; a club that has not played yet carries its seed and shows none.

Full detail, week by week, on the 2026-27 season page · every season since 1917-18 in the season archive.

Final standings, Sun, 18 October 2026

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2026-27 standings

Where every team stood on the date set above.

How this is measured

One table per conference, side by side on a wide screen, each grouped by division where the league had them (divisions from 1927, conferences from 1975); one table before any split. In 2020-21 there were no conferences, only four divisions, so East and North share the left table and Central and West the right. The record is the regular season as it stood on the date, W-L-T while ties existed and W-L-OTL once overtime losses did, and Pts is how the league ranks it: two a win, one a tie or an overtime loss. The Playoffs column is blank for a team that was not in the postseason, which is not the same as 0-0. Back is points behind the last playoff place a team can still take (its division's third seed or the last wild card in the wild-card era, the last conference seed or its division lead before that); In means it holds a place, 0 that it is level on points and out on the tiebreak. Sd is the playoff place if the season ended on that date under that year's format: top three per division and two wild cards per conference since 2013-14, top eight per conference with division winners first from 1994, top four per division 1982-93 and 1968-74, top three per division 1975-79 and 1927-38, and the league table before and between. Ties on points go to the team that made it; the real tiebreaks are not modelled. The Elo column keeps moving through June, so a team can climb after its regular season has ended.

Final standings · Sun, 18 October 2026

Eastern Conference

Eastern Atlantic · 5-1 · 10 pts
1538
+3 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 4-1 · 8 pts
1554
-12 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 4-2 · 8 pts
1518
+6 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 3-2-1 · 7 pts
1482
+18 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 3-3 · 6 pts
1534
-26 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 2-2-2 · 6 pts
1503
-9 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 2-2-1 · 5 pts
1524
-20 yr
Eastern Atlantic · 1-3-1 · 3 pts
1482
-5 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 5-1-1 · 11 pts
1585
-25 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 5-2 · 10 pts
1506
+19 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 3-2-1 · 7 pts
1510
+3 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 3-2 · 6 pts
1528
-3 yr
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Eastern Metropolitan · 2-2 · 4 pts
1506
-2 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 2-3 · 4 pts
1489
+5 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 2-3 · 4 pts
1487
-5 yr
Eastern Metropolitan · 0-5-2 · 2 pts
1481
-25 yr

Western Conference

Western Central · 4-1-1 · 9 pts
1542
0 yr
Western Central · 4-2 · 8 pts
1518
+9 yr
Western Central · 3-1-1 · 7 pts
1495
+5 yr
Western Central · 3-2 · 6 pts
1568
-24 yr
Western Central · 2-1-2 · 6 pts
1487
+8 yr
Western Central · 2-2-1 · 5 pts
1537
-16 yr
Western Central · 2-2-1 · 5 pts
1505
-2 yr
Western Central · 1-5 · 2 pts
1428
+19 yr
Western Pacific · 5-2 · 10 pts
1539
-6 yr
Western Pacific · 4-0-1 · 9 pts
1525
+7 yr
Western Pacific · 4-1 · 8 pts
1496
+20 yr
Western Pacific · 4-2 · 8 pts
1482
+30 yr
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Western Pacific · 3-2 · 6 pts
1458
+21 yr
Western Pacific · 2-5 · 4 pts
1428
+25 yr
Western Pacific · 0-2-2 · 2 pts
1476
-2 yr
Western Pacific · 0-5 · 0 pts
1450
-11 yr

Where these numbers come from

Weekly Elo ratings are Neil Paine’s NHL series. Era names, honours, records and brackets come from the project’s NHL workbook and refresh when it is updated. Hockey-Reference, 2026-27.