{"id":85621,"date":"2025-11-23T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nhl-team-rankings-and-mvp-at-the-quarter-season-mark\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:09:32","slug":"nhl-team-rankings-and-mvp-at-the-quarter-season-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/nhl-team-rankings-and-mvp-at-the-quarter-season-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL: Team Rankings and MVP at the Quarter Season Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Colorado Avalanche Remains Atop the NHL<\/h2>\n\nAfter another week of intense action in the 2025-26 NHL season, the Alofoke Deportes voting panel continues to position the Colorado Avalanche as the league&#8217;s most outstanding team.\n\nThis week saw significant changes in the rankings, including the first appearance in the top 10 for the Chicago Blackhawks in a long time, with Connor Bedard and company fighting for a playoff spot, a quarter of the season already completed.\n\nAs part of the weekly rankings, we identify the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of each team during the first 25% of the season.\n\n<strong>Classification Methodology:<\/strong> A panel of hockey commentators, analysts, reporters, and editors from Alofoke Deportes sends a 1-32 survey based on the games played until Wednesday.\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The above ranking of each team refers to the previous edition, published on November 14. The point percentages correspond to the matches played until Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1119%2FNHL_power_rankings_25_11_21_16x9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Caption:<\/strong> Illustration by Alofoke Deportes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>1. Colorado Avalanche<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPrevious ranking: 1\n\nPercentage of points: 82.5%\n\nMVP of the first quarter of the season: Nathan MacKinnon. Despite Cale Makar&#8217;s outstanding season, MacKinnon leads the league in points (36) and goals (16).\n\nUpcoming seven days: @ NSH (November 22), @ CHI (November 23), vs. SJ (November 26)\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>2. Carolina Hurricanes<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPrevious ranking: 4\n\nPercentage of points: 70%\n\nFirst-quarter MVP: Seth Jarvis. The Hurricanes&#8217; rising star continues to play in all situations and maintains a pace close to a point per game.\n\nNext seven days: @ WPG (November 21st), @ BUF (November 23rd), vs. NYR (November 26th)\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>3. Anaheim Ducks<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPrevious ranking: 3\n\nPercentage of points: 64.3%\n\nMVP of the first quarter of the season: Leo Carlsson. The selection of Carlsson with the number 2 in the 2023 draft has proven to be accurate, with the young Swede leading the Ducks in the Pacific Division.\n\nNext seven days: vs. VGK (November 22), vs. VAN (November 26)\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>4. Dallas Stars<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPrevious ranking: 5\n\nPercentage of points: 69%\n\nMVP of the first quarter of the season: Mikko Rantanen. The Stars did not hesitate to secure Rantanen with a long-term contract, and so far, the investment has paid off.\n\nNext seven days: @ CGY (November 22), @ EDM (November 25), @ SEA (November 26)\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>5. New Jersey Devils<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPrevious ranking: 2\n\nPercentage of points: 67.5%\n\nMVP of the first quarter of the season: Jesper Bratt. The Devils will have to face more games without Jack Hughes, who suffered an injury.\n\nNext seven days: @ PHI (November 22), vs. DET (November 24), vs. STL (November 26)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Avalanche Remains Atop the NHL After another week of intense action in the 2025-26 NHL season, the Alofoke Deportes voting panel continues to position the Colorado Avalanche as the league&#8217;s most outstanding team. This week saw significant changes in the rankings, including the first appearance in the top 10 for the Chicago Blackhawks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1024,8922,376,454],"class_list":{"0":"post-85621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-connor-bedard","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-nhl"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}