NHL Power Rankings for the 2000s Decade

[@ScarecrOmega]

Detroit's transition from Yzerman/Fedorov to Datsyuk/Zetterberg was the key to their success while Lidstrom was apart of both generations and dominated the decade in Norris and other trophies.

[@poejavelski148]

Scarecrow7 A fun fact that I realized is that Lidstrom has been apart of all 6 presidents trophy Wings teams which is obviously the most, and Lidstrom also never missed the playoffs in his career, as I believe his rookie year is when the streak started.

[@nova7747]

The Wings logo got altitude sickness from that climb.

[@jakecontos7626]

NoVa haha. that’s a good one, coming from a wings fan. We’ll be back in 2-3 years. Have all the faith in the wrld for Stevie Y

[@klompsauce]

I believe we go back to back for the decade boys

[@trentthurow5696]

The wings made the playoffs every year of the decade, had over 100 points every year won two cups, lost in the cup finals once and the conference finals once, won 4 or 5 presidents trophies a pretty amazing decade.

[@Scrotom]

Don't forget that they would have won the 2005 cup too if not for the lockout!

[@ScarecrOmega]

2006 1st round loss to Oilers(who went to the Finals) really hurt, that year's Wings roster was one of their best, Manny Legace might have been at fault.

[@trentthurow5696]

If Schneider and Kronwall didn’t get hurt in 07 they had a really good chance of getting past the ducks.

[@JHockeyFan]

Trent Thurow If Lilja doesn’t cough up the puck in Game 5, Wings win the Cup. Also might win another one if Fischer didn’t have heart issues.

[@Indigenous_Rambo]

"And prongers wife said it's cold here" XD had me rofl.

[@patrickbooth5091]

What a great decade to fall in love with hockey while living in New Jersey

[@maxrates]

Running with the Devils!

[@DevilzFan]

Man I miss the 90's and 00's.

[@markhulicius4339]

devils trap was surely entertaining

[@exeter1985]

Now that's a JERSEY!

[@cobrak1ngs]

Go thrashers

[@personM4N]

"NHL Power Rankings for the 2000s Decade" Wings and Devils fans: *pull up chair, open popcorn*

[@paulcohen7480]

I miss the 1990's and 2000's for the Redwings. So tough to see this rebuild.

[@risk_it_4_the_biscuit]

The Sabres went to the Conference Finals in 05-06 and 06-07(Won President's Trophy) without Hasek.

[@chriskotrides5673]

Hasek left Buffalo in 01.... 02-04 rebuilding, 05-07 they were a WAGON. So I’m just going to assume THG just forgot, he’s normally spot on, I’ll cut some slack.

[@poejavelski148]

Chris Kotrides Ya I swear that 05-06 Sabres team would have had the cup if not for lots of injuries in the playoffs. So stacked from top to bottom.

[@schlatt2574]

I loved the 2000s wings. We had a mix of Yzerman, Lidstrom, Datsyuk and Zetterburg. I wished we would’ve won more cups during the empire coming from a leafs wings fan

[@paveldatsyuk7175]

Salty Leafs Fan :)

[@canadiancruelty]

Leafs: Not 30th Me: Higher than I thought edit: I'm staring to wonder if he forgot about us.

[@JaredRotenberg]

Nope the Leafs (atleast at the beginning of the decade) were actually pretty good. I agree with Shannon though that after the lockout we were not the same team and fell off greatly

[@SeanKH19]

@@JustPuckinAround "Not that bad overall but not extremely impressive either" pretty much sums it up. Which is why I think the lockout didn't actually hurt us. It was good in the long run to expose the mismanagement.

[@kakarotblake]

The late 90's/early 2000's Leafs up until the lockout were a solid team. From 88-89 to 03-04 they were a playoff team, making it past the first round every year but one and went to the conference final twice. Definitely didnt deserve to be anywhere near 30th dispite how bad they were post lockout. And I know the 90's don't count but still

[@kakarotblake]

I agree with Shannon, they were definitely a contender before the lockout and if the lockout didnt happen who's knows what would have happened with the Leafs

[@seanhenderson5996]

As an Oilers fan I have no problem with where you put them in the 10s or the 00s.

[@russtty]

the red wings realized the value of scouting a decade before the rest of the league did. they were honestly talented enough to win five cups between 2000 and 2010

[@ScarecrOmega]

2006 1st round loss to Oilers(who went to the Finals) really hurt, that year's Wings roster was one of their best, Manny Legace might have been at fault.

[@fluffypanda17]

Crazy, 3 of the greatest goalies in the NHL Roy, Brodeur, and Hasek land their teams in the top 3..... and I guess Osgood helped that one year....lol

[@dman7774]

i think for the penguins in the 2000s, malkin and crosby deserve equal; credit. If mallkin wasn't there in the 2009 run there is no way the penguins would win

[@ScarecrOmega]

'09 Finals vs Red Wings - Malkin 8 pts in 7 game 29 PIM, Crosby 3 pts in 7 games -3,

[@dman7774]

@@ScarecrOmega are u agreeing with what i'm saying or disagreeing? i don't really get it.

[@ScarecrOmega]

@@dman7774 I agree that Malkin should be mentioned. Shannon saying the Penguins success is because of #87 is just factually wrong. The Penguins actually have a higher winning percentage when Crosby is out of the lineup.

[@dman7774]

@@ScarecrOmega very true

[@frankcommatobe8009]

Yes yes yes

[@kevinhayes114]

Hey shannon, love the content. Got a couple video ideas if they're not already in the works: best single seasons for teams/players and worst single seasons for teams (maybe top 15 lists?)

[@bdonaghu]

Carolina's '05-'06 team can be considered underrated because it took them 7 games to beat a Buffalo team without their top 4 defensemen playing in the conference finals, and then had to go to 7 games against the 8th seeded Oilers. Still a Cup championship and you cannot discount that in itself, but when you measure up to the other champions, they lack that extra bump.

[@socalhockeyfan9784]

Sabres should Definitely be farther up on the list and They Made it to 2 conference finals with Ryan Miller so it was more than just Hasek.

[@ColdFear22]

Agreed. The 05-06 and 06-07 teams were among the best teams of the entire decade. They shouldn't be too high but definitely closer to 10 rather than 16.

[@aaronfleshler6219]

The sabres had a historical offensive season in 06 07

[@socalhockeyfan9784]

Matthew Yeah for only like 2 seasons

[@philly_sports1558]

Given all the talent that the Sharks have had over the years, it almost seems impossible that they've never won a Stanley Cup. They are the Minnesota Vikings of the NHL.

[@jeffreycherep8264]

That comparison is damn near perfect. I'd say the Buffalo Bills if the Sharks had made it to more finals.

[@Painkiller-1997]

The Sharks are more like the Falcons than the Vikings and I say that as an Atlanta fan.

[@daved1535]

To me I always thought the Minnesota Vikings and St Louis Blues were very comparable to one another until the Blues won the cup last year

[@codywoodell1591]

Would love to see at least 1 Colorado vs Carolina final in the 2020s

[@ccr35582]

Definitely have to say growing up a hockey fan in Michigan in the 90s/2000s we were absolutely spoiled by how great the Red Wings were. Great time to fall in love with hockey. But we also deal with the Lions so it balances out lol.

[@ThatEflatGuy]

Chris R my introduction to hockey was the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs...I was a kid just getting into sports in NC when the Hurricanes were going on that big playoff run. I was devastated by the loss to your Wings, but in retrospect I realized that ‘02 team is still one of the best ever assembled. Lidstrom, Yzerman, Hull, Hasek, Federov, Shanahan, Larionov, Robitaille, and Chelios are all in the Hall. They also had a young Pavel Datsyuk and other players I remember like Kirk Maltby. Plus Scotty Bowman was coaching. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a better team.

[@mike04574]

Michigan had a weird sports decade

[@jara5399]

Lets go devils!

[@exeter1985]

At 4:53 Shadow the Slacker finally wakes up and shows up on the set!

[@BvG_Venom]

Detroit be like "We're back baby!!!"

[@seanslater1147]

That’s a big drop off from buffalo to Boston, buffalo played in 9 playoffs series and Boston played in 6

[@commandershepard1838]

Darren McCarty said recently that the wings won in 08 in spite of babcock and lost because of him in 09 and I believe it. You didn’t have datsyuk the first 5 games of the series which was a factor but you were still up 3-2. You took hossa from them. There’s no reason the wings shouldn’t have won cups in 07, 08, 09. I think if there was a coach the players respected a bit more behind the bench, they would have. They were absolutely loaded. Also holland was a dumbass for letting hossa walk so easily.

[@MikeG82]

Lidstrom and Hossa were banged up badly that series

[@commandershepard1838]

MikeG82 still should have won when you were up 3-2. If you rewatch the 08 series, that should have been a sweep. There were long stretches where Detroit dominated Pittsburgh. And that was with hossa.

[@nrmproductions1150]

Randy Randerson The 09 series was the perfect storm of the wings being hurt and the Penguins getting some help from the league with Colin Campbell reversing Malkins automatic suspension for game 3. Datsyuk was hurt but he did not play well in those playoffs, Lidstrom was a god playing through a ruptured testicle, but Hossa was an absolute ghost throughout the entire playoffs, it made sense to retain Franzen instead because he was a beast with 25 playoff goals in 2 years. No excuse to lose that series. The wings were up 3-2 and then scored only two goals the rest of the series: Kris Draper and Jonathan Ericsson. That’s the short answer

[@trace6242]

"Walk so easily." He was competing for a paycheck with a guy who could score hat tricks at will.

[@michaelmccormick2124]

I got to see one of the Thrashers 4 playoff games, swept by the Rangers😂

[@meme6335]

Serg 72 look up his KZbin channel. He has a few of those games I believe. If you have any problems finding them I’ll link them to you:)

[@michaelmccormick2124]

Me Me thanks so much, just saw that and went to the channel there’s so much there, cheers

[@meme6335]

Michael Mccormick Np, one of the best channels for classic games on KZbin imo. NHL Playoffs archive is also another one I’d recommend.

[@meme6335]

Actually I got my channels mixed up. It was actually NHL playoffs archive that had the thrasher games. I thought they had more but it looks like only game 1 was on there, Anyway here’s a link to game 1 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5Kne3mgjcipiZI

[@klompsauce]

I needed this video -Detroit fan

[@ismann9148]

I miss 2004... good times.

[@BillV3]

That thrashers Jersey is 🔥🔥🔥

[@dD-iv9tz]

Ur vids double asmr and I mean that in a good way. I like after work throwing ur vids on smoking a joint and walking my dog so relaxing

[@FreeJaffa92]

I’m honestly a little shocked that the NY Rangers made it past the bottom row. The rangers were barely a team before Lundqvist. As a kid there were 3 indisputable facts about New York hockey, the devils with always be better than rangers, The Rangers would always overpaid its players while missing the playoffs, and the islanders play with dolls in the locker room.

[@rickyhazel1030]

LA had 3 year's of playoffs to start the decade and then frustrated the crap out of me the next 6 seasons Deadmarsh's career ending,the Jason Allison trade and subsequent injury's killed the decade for LA but hey Brown,Kopitar,and Doughty equalled 2 cups

[@ricktacular6316]

If Hasek didn't get injured in the 06 olympics, Ottawa would of won the cup. With him in net plus having Chara,Redden, Phillips and Volchenkov as your top 4 on defense, not to mention the offense they had, it would of been too much for any team to handle in my opinion.

[@lckimler]

Glad to see Carolina where they belong. 2 SCF appearances and an additional ECF run, the construction of a hockey community in Raleigh, and Rod The Bod in all his glory! To be fair, they belonged 30th in the 2010's. It was a depressing decade.

[@ThatEflatGuy]

Logan Kimler dude it was so bad that even I was losing interest by 2016. I thought something special was going to happen in that lockout-shortened season. Also Skinner’s rookie year was fun but ended in devastation with that make-or-break Game 82 against the Lightning...I couldn’t believe they got so thoroughly dominated in that game when the Lightning were just playing spoiler.

[@mattm8108]

They were a non existent franchise until their series win against… the Caps. The second worst first round chokers

[@JackieBoiii45]

Do an all time power rankings. Like from when the league started until now

[@ericfisher7113]

That would be interesting, but hard to do without the top 6 all being Original 6 teams just by virtue of existing for a long time when others didn't.

[@nrmproductions1150]

The Wings had 3 years in a row of losing critical game 5s at home when the series was tied 2-2. There’s no excuse for that especially when you have one of the greatest teams of all time. Yes they won in 08 but they got even better in 09 and lost. It doesn’t make sense. I’m just glad I got to see them win but it should’ve been so much more

[@brianhum8765]

It's how hockey goes some time; sometimes you just hit a bunch of bad luck. They looked well on their way to beating LA in '01 but lost Yzerman and Shanahan to injury for almost the whole series, they could've easily won in '03 or '06 if not for running into super hot goalies in Giguere and Roloson. By NHL rule Malkin should've been suspended for game 3 in '09 after getting the instigating penalty in the last 5 minutes and without his 3 assists the game he would've been suspended, that series is probably 3-0, in '07 they were less than a minute from going up 3-2 on Anaheim (who won the cup and were the other best team left) before that terribly unlucky goal that hit Lidstrom's stick on the ice and went straight up over Hasek. She is a cruel mistress sometimes those NHL playoffs.

[@andrewl4162]

LOVE THE VID. Entertaining all the way through. GO AVS!

[@BrettHornby]

Calgary Flames didn't start the decade well but rode 2004 for the rest of the decade. Couldn't get out of the first round after that run.

[@Peep1171]

Maybe once you finish you can average it all out and do an all time power rankings

[@daved1535]

The Red Wings always gave the Stars problems. I was so happy when Colorado beat Detroit in the playoffs in 99. If Detroit had beaten Colorado that year, I honestly think Dallas would not have won the Cup that year

[@lelouchvibritannia4028]

The Avs usually show up in the playoffs when they have a deep team lol. We have an all time playoff series record of 3-2 vs Detroit.

[@don178]

@@lelouchvibritannia4028 I think you're forgetting the 2008 sweep. That tied the all time playoff series at 3-3.

[@trentthurow5696]

Johan Franzen haunts their dreams

[@rohinkartik-narayan7535]

I'll agree on the idea that team performance and attendance are connected. I'm a fan of the Illinois Fighting Illini, and it's an obvious connection there. Last season our basketball team sucked and we had attendance issues. This year we were actually good and now State Farm Center regularly sells out, sometimes months in advance

[@watvat8]

This should be interesting, as I didn’t get sucked into MTL fandom till Subban era in 2010

[@showmemoblues]

The Blues always in the middle... One of the problems just meh but LOVE my BLUES...

[@chrisfleming3078]

Hasek departed in 01 from Buffalo. The sabres teams post lock-out were some of the better teams to start that era of hockey. Pre-lock out, the team was re-tooling a bit. Toward the end of the decade they started to slide, but they had Miller, Vanek, and Pommenville all in their prime.

[@brandonb.6099]

I think rebuilds are tricky for NHL teams, but it can be a challenge to become a Stanley cup contender because teams have to be smart, draft well and maybe have top end players in key positions on the team.

[@Gabe-lt1nu]

I’m expect the Jackets in 30th before I start this video

[@remingtonbianchi9866]

Pens are too high, we sucked so bad pre-lockout

[@larryparr2799]

Dildo Swaggins I thought so too, but you have to remember they went to a conference final in 2001 before the rebuild. That means they made 3 of 9 conference finals in the decade and appeared in 14 playoff series. Despite those bad 3 years they made the playoffs 5 out of nine years and only once did not win a playoff series. The math adds up.

[@stevelewis8961]

Ducks gotta be top 5!

[@AndrewBullard9170]

Would have been fun to see rangers and maple leafs in a eastern conference final back then

[@Rob-uc8zr]

the good old days

[@yealogan3122]

I remember when I took Carolina over the Caps and people just laughed at me. I came back after game 6 literally crying in laughter at them.

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Keep going I like this!! You want to fill up the whole board and see how each team compares to eachother in the playoffs and such??

[@seanslater1147]

Vancouver, Toronto, st Louis and buffalo, who had 9 points using you’re system (Toronto had 10), all should’ve been ahead of Tampa and Calgary who only had 8

[@daved1535]

Those 4 teams never made it to the Stanley Cup. Tampa and Calgary did with Tampa winning a cup

[@mh-ct7oc]

Thank you for keeping this going, Hockey Guy. We are climbing the walls without hockey.

[@itscommon7713]

Finally a power rankings where Detroit is #1 😁

[@trp5995]

Carolina's win in the first round last year was especially sweet, considering who they beat.

[@ScarecrOmega]

If this was regular season only the Sharks would be in the Top 3, they were dominant.... until the playoffs started.

[@poejavelski148]

Scarecrow7 Ya from 03-04 all the way to now the Sharks have the most wins, points, and i believe points percentage excluding Vegas and least amount of losses. Regular season champs that struggle in the playoffs.

[@SverigeiSverige]

What's the formula?

[@daledemanchuk7920]

no complaints on this one guy you hit it pretty good!

[@holup2691]

I think your point about Tampa is fair. Shame we never got the answer in 2005 though.

[@Painkiller-1997]

I still miss the Thrashers. If the owners ever got their shit together, the team could've won at least one cup. Some really talented players in their history. Hossa, Heatley, Kovalchuck, Byfuglien, Little, McEachern, Snyder (rest in peace Danny boy), etc. Great jerseys too.

[@SlamJamMcCam]

"And then Pronger's wife said it's cold here, and that's where that ended". I laughed pretty hard... As an Oilers fan too. Shit sucked at the time, and she was and is public enemy number 1, but you just gotta laugh sometimes!

[@goalhornfanatic9449]

I dunno, Shannon. Saying Sabres started to have their troubles after losing Hasek seems a bit exaggerated. Miller was no Hasek, but he was definitely as stud. The team from 05-07 was a beast. Shame it got disbanded so soon. Could've possibly had a better 07-08 season if we didn't lose keys like Briere and Drury.

[@davidovics92]

I miss when Shannon just jumbled up the standings at the end of PR videos :D :D

[@Butterfieldbank]

Can we know the point system?

[@Keenan716]

Sabres should be way higher IN MY OPINION but good video none the less!

[@ChildishRambino]

What's funny is that it'll probably be the same top 4 (definitely top 3) for the 90s power rankings.

[@Banana_Man845]

Can we go back to this decade?

[@gunsmithbasic]

It's striking how crippled expansion teams would start out.

[@robertthiesen2687]

Using a formula doesn't remove opinion, it just pushes opinion back to the level the terms of the formula. Which is fine, and inevitable.

[@RobotWillie]

In regards to San Jose and St. Louis, I get your formula and think its a good way to do it, but at the same time it is pretty goofy to see a team that didn't win Lord Stanley's Cup ahead of one that did. But I get its based on consistency in keeping a good record and getting into the playoffs too. So I see both sides of the argument.

[@anthonyspeta2181]

Would you be able to post the formula you used after your done all the power rankings?

[@mike04574]

Funny decade for Michigan sports, wings and pistols were great while tigers and lions were historically bad

[@vincen805]

How were the Islanders not lower and 25 is low but it was a roughhhh decade

[@josha5266]

We need an in between the decades for Vancouver lol

[@patch8376]

"Just tear it all down and do a full rebuild." - Anyone who doesn't know ELCs are up after three years

[@mikeaesthetic7972]

I understand bertuzzi was a great player, but what he did to Steve Moore I never could get past it. I truly hate him as a player now, I just was shocked when that happened and how unruly it was.

[@nrmproductions1150]

With the Spurs missing the playoffs this year, I think it’s safe to say no one will come close to the 25 year playoff streak for a long time

[@BoyNamedSue4]

Predict before watching: 5. Pittsburgh 4. Avs 3. Devils 2. Ducks 1. Wings

[@daved1535]

Ducks ahead of the Devils????

[@ThatEflatGuy]

Well, you got the right teams, but you were a bit off in the order.

[@schlatt2574]

Ottawa before Melnyke must of been nice

[@phineasstewart]

Tbh melnyk actually saved the team in 2003 when he bought it. I’m not saying he’s not an idiot now but back then he was much less hands on

[@burntpato9760]

The flames got completely robbed of that cup

[@Jay-fl5yr]

Part of me was surprised by how high the Blues were. I became old enough to really start watching hockey near the end of this decade when the Blues were awful.

[@collinbasler4882]

Jay I remember the days the arena was half full at the end of the decade. Not all that long ago.

[@judahwanner2366]

And Pittsburgh could easily be 1st or 2nd of the 90s... What a stretch

[@rynedowning7694]

First, the sharks were ahead of St. louis. Then, the sharks were ahead of St. louis.

[@fluffypanda17]

16?!? Why are we Sabres only 16...oh wait... that's right....Management went on a fire sale after BOTCHING Drury & Briere resignings....😑😤😭 aaaaaand were STILL waiting....

[@Inactive1738]

what a jersey though

[@NYR_State_of_mind]

I don’t think the rangers should be this low after the lockout they missed the playoffs once hank came in that year and the team changed. I know they didn’t have deep runs because they lost to the penguins a lot but they were still a solid team the second half of that decade

[@erikkarpify]

5:30 Jesus Christ 😲

[@paveldatsyuk7175]

Wings

[@poonking3628]

I am shocked Chicago was 24th tbh, they were arguably the worst team from 2003-2007, like almost unwatchable during that time.

[@kieranperreaultdit-morin9262]

wait... my team is number 1 on a hockey guy list????

[@fallendevonish1869]

The devils had a much tougher division then Detroit, even the board shows that. The Islanders where better than Columbus, the Rangers were better than Nashville and Chicago, the THIRD best team in the Dev's division Philly where miles better than Detroits SECOND best ST Louis, and there was no equivalent of the Pens for Detroit to deal with. It's a lot easier to qualify for the play-offs on a regular basis when your division is always weak.

[@nrmproductions1150]

Fallen Devonish It’s still not really a debate, Detroit made the playoffs with over 100 points every year of the decade, won 2 cups, 4 presidents trophies, led the west 6 years, won their division every single year, had two of the top 3 single season teams of the decade, and had the most Hall of Fame players. They were easily the best of the league

[@holden739]

Islanders aren’t 30th I’m stunned

[@Christoph5782]

Why isn't Vegas on this list? :P

[@Painkiller-1997]

Vegas would be in the 2010's. The 2000's ended in 2010 because it would've been 10 years. Vegas formed around 2018.

[@SoulO117]

I mean it’s a great list but top ten would be some changes but the way they still are now are fine and I could see why personally I’d have 1.Nj 2.avs 3.wings 4.ducks 5. Pens 6. Stars 7.sharks 8.sens 9.canes 10.flyers but great list either way

[@nrmproductions1150]

Soul Reaper888 Not having the wings #1 is madness. They were the team of the 90ds and the 2000ds

[@brianhradek4030]

Wow talk about a bad list

[@ryanschlaud]

LGRW!!!!!!!!!!

[@judelind7644]

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