Preseason power rankings are an annual tradition in every sport. Most media outlets will publish their own rankings heading into the season, and there’s usually very little difference between each station.
One of the nice things about sports betting is it can refresh the way you look at a player, a team, a season or even an entire sport. To most of the hockey world, teams such as the Arizona Coyotes, San Jose Sharks and Montreal Canadiens won’t matter all that much. They’re expected to be bad, and to casual fans and the mainstream media, that makes them relatively uninteresting. But if you’re betting hockey every night, those teams matter to you just as much as the Florida Panthers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Colorado Avalanche.
That's why instead of ranking teams from best to worst in the traditional sense, I publish my own NHL Betting Power Rankings ahead of every season and pick out a bet that interests me for all 32 teams.