The Tampa Bay Lightning were so good last season — until April, that is — that we’re amending our normal rule in this space. Let’s see come spring if that was a fair or flawed decision. The policy has been pretty simple in the past for the season’s first NHL Power Rankings: You win the Stanley Cup in June, you start No. 1 in October until it’s time for you to give up the spot. Even if that turns out to be the first week of the season. Not happening this year. So with apologies to the St. Louis Blues and their historic six-month run that climaxed with their Game 7 triumph June 12 in Boston, the Lightning are going to open the 2019-20 rankings at No. 1, where they spent most of last season. The Bolts went 62-16-4 and finished with a whopping 128 points, trying Detroit’s 1996 NHL record for wins and falling four shy of Montreal’s 1977 mark for points. They had the Art Ross and Hart Trophy winner (Nikita Kucherov) and the Vezina Trophy winner (Andrei Vasilevskiy). And it didn’t matter a bit. They became the first Presidents’ Trophy winner to get swept in the first… Read full this story
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