Power Feelings: Tampa Bay Lightning ready to strike on a second Stanley Cup

This may look to you like a standard NHL “power rankings” but let me assure you, friend, that it is anything but. These rankings are based entirely on how I feel about a team’s chances of winning the Cup, meaning you can’t tell me I’m wrong because these are my feelings and feelings can’t be wrong.

Please enjoy the Power Feelings.

32. Buffalo Sabres (Last time: 31)

Yes, I am putting the Buffalo Sabres below a team that does not exist yet, and amazingly, I feel like no one would begrudge this.

The Sabres have to give away their two best forwards and maybe a guy who is their second- or third-best defender by default. They’ll likely lose all three of those trades (or two if someone really wants to get wacky) and that’s the starting point of yet another rebuild.

They might hit 15 years without the