Canadian NHL Power Rankings: All 7 Teams, 1 Month In

The Winnipeg Jets opened this season with a goaltender who wouldn’t report to camp.

They solved that on October 23, trading Connor Hellebuyck to the New Jersey Devils for a package built around forward Dawson Mercer.

Two nights later, outdoors at Princess Auto Stadium, they lost the Heritage Classic to the Montreal Canadiens in what was a fifth straight defeat.

So much for the Canadian bounce-back story of 2026-27. Well, until the Jets went to Montreal on November 3 and won a game no team in NHL history had ever won before that is.

What a team was supposed to be in September tells you very little a month in. The standings page isn’t much use either. The NHL is playing 84 games for the first time since 1993-94, and the seven Canadian teams haven’t worked through the schedule at the same rate.

Two games separate the busiest from the least active, so a raw points column flatters whoever has played more.

Our NHL Power Rankings here at LeoVegas run on points percentage – the share of available points each team has actually banked – with form and underlying quality separating anyone close.

As it happens, this month the two measures agree from top to bottom, which makes the order even harder to argue with than usual!

Team records and statistics correct through November 3, 2026

2026-27 NHL Canadian Teams Power Rankings

Our NHL power rankings are:

• 1. Edmonton Oilers
• 2. Montreal Canadiens
• 3. Ottawa Senators
• 4. Toronto Maple Leafs
• 5. Calgary Flames
• 6. Winnipeg Jets
• 7. Vancouver Canucks

Read our per-team breakdowns below…

1. Edmonton Oilers

16 GP / 11-2-3 / 25 pts / .781 / +19 / L10 6-2-2

Mike Babcock’s first season behind the Oilers bench has produced the best individual start the NHL has seen in a generation.

Connor McDavid has an assist in all 16 games, 31 in total, erasing a season-opening record of 12 held jointly by Sebastian Aho, Ken Linseman, and Wayne Gretzky.

He reached 30 assists quicker than anyone in history, was named the NHL’s First Star for October, and his 40 points through 16 games put him fourth on a list that otherwise reads Mario Lemieux, Gretzky, and Joe Malone. Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard sit immediately behind him, giving Edmonton the top three in league scoring.

The November 3 shootout loss in New Jersey still left the Oilers 7-0-1 away from Rogers Place, the only team in the league yet to lose a road game in regulation.

Next up: Vancouver @ Edmonton, Sat Nov 7 Verdict: The best points percentage in the NHL, and nobody in Canada is within range

2. Montreal Canadiens

15 GP / 9-3-3 / 21 pts / .700 / +5 / L10 7-1-2

Goaltending was supposed to be the question in Montreal. Jacob Fowler, who began the season behind Jakub Dobes, has become the answer already.

The 21-year-old was the youngest goaltender in NHL history to start an outdoor game when he won the Heritage Classic, and he followed it by stopping the first 37 shots he faced from Winnipeg on November 3 (42 in all).

That the Canadiens lost anyway says more about the final three minutes than it does about him.

They have points in eight straight regardless, and have managed it without Nick Suzuki. The captain has missed six games with a hand injury, ending a run of 546 consecutive appearances going back to his first NHL game.

Next up: Montreal @ Toronto, Sat Nov 7 Verdict: A clear second in Canada, with points percentage bettered by only five teams league-wide

3. Ottawa Senators

16 GP / 9-6-1 / 19 pts / .594 / +1 / L10 4-5-1

Ottawa has never had an October like it.

The Senators won nine games and registered a franchise-record 19 points, matching the team’s best-ever win total for the month set in 2007-08.

Tim Stutzle drove it with 21 points, more than any Senators player has managed in an October, and his nine goals left him one short of Bob Kudelski’s 1993 mark.

Drake Batherson has been the other half of it, his point streak reaching eight games with an assist in Anaheim on November 1, meaning six goals and seven assists across the run.

That game served as the warning, though. Leading 3-0 after one period, the Senators conceded six unanswered, four of them on the power play, and lost 6-3.

It leaves them with a last 10 reading 4-5-1, and Linus Ullmark still absent in goal.

Next up: Utah @ Ottawa, Sat Nov 7 Verdict: The nine wins came early; four in the last 10 suggests the start flattered them

4. Toronto Maple Leafs

17 GP / 8-7-2 / 18 pts / .529 / +6 / L10 5-4-1

Gavin McKenna is 18 and already carries the most interesting workload in the country.

The first overall pick has 11 points on under 14 minutes a night, and head coach Jim Hiller has been open about why the minutes stop when they do: McKenna is learning when to open a game up and when to shut it down, and the late shifts in tight games are being earned rather than simply handed over.

Around him, Toronto is scoring more than anyone else in the Atlantic… but concedes more than anyone else in it too. The Leafs’ 62 goals are bettered by only three teams in the league; only five have let in more than their 56.

Auston Matthews has 11 goals and 15 assists. Jack Roslovic scored both goals against the Utah Mammoth on November 3 and has points in seven straight.

Next up: Montreal @ Toronto, Sat Nov 7 Verdict: Plenty of goals, too many against; fourth here is about what they concede, not what they score

5. Calgary Flames

15 GP / 7-8-0 / 14 pts / .467 / -15 / L10 7-3-0

Calgary has won seven of its last 10, as many as any team in Canada. It also has a goal differential of -15. Both are true, which is what makes them so hard to place in these NHL Power Rankings.

The Flames opened 0-5-0 and have gone 7-3-0 since, on low-event hockey rather than scoring given their 38 goals in 15 games is the fewest of any Canadian team.

Their recent 2-1 win over the San Jose Sharks came from the fourth line, Adam Klapka scoring and then assisting William Stromgren’s first NHL goal.

The crease remains the live issue. Devin Cooley is out with a lower-body injury, Dustin Wolf has struggled, and Arsenii Sergeev made his second NHL start on October 31.

Next up: Philadelphia @ Calgary, Sun Nov 8 Verdict: The form table would have them much higher… the season table is the one being ranked here though

6. Winnipeg Jets

16 GP / 5-8-3 / 13 pts / .406 / -19 / L10 1-7-2

Winnipeg’s one win from its last 10 games happened to be the most improbable in NHL history.

Trailing Montreal 4-0 with 02:39 left at the Bell Centre on November 3, the Jets scored four times in just over two minutes, the fastest four goals in franchise history and quicker than a mark that had stood since 1984.

Tyrel Bauer’s first NHL goal started it; Kyle Connor’s second of the night, on the power play with 32 seconds to go, tied it; Dylan Samberg won it 03:30 into overtime. No team had ever begun a four-goal comeback that late – the previous record, held by the Los Angeles Kings, started four and a half minutes earlier in the game.

It came two nights after a 7-0 defeat at the Carolina Hurricanes. Stuart Skinner, acquired from Edmonton, made 18 saves.

Next up: Tampa Bay @ Winnipeg, Sun Nov 8 Verdict: One night can’t fix -19, but it's something to build on

7. Vancouver Canucks

17 GP / 3-13-1 / 7 pts / .206 / -26 / L10 1-8-1

Manny Malhotra inherited the worst record in the NHL and, a month into his first season, has not yet shifted it.

Vancouver has one regulation win in 17 games and the numbers behind that are worse than the record itself.

The Canucks’ 77 goals against are 19 more than any other team in the league, their goal differential of -26 is the worst in the league, and they have won once at Rogers Arena in eight attempts.

Forward Elias Pettersson leads the team with 18 points in 17 games, his 14 assists inside the top 20 in the NHL.

There is fight in there. Trailing the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 early in the third on November 3, Jake DeBrusk scored twice to make it 5-4 before the Ducks held on.

Next up: Vancouver @ Edmonton, Sat Nov 7 Verdict: Bottom of the pile and not close; the goals against have to come down before anything improves

Team records and statistics correct through November 3, 2026

NHL State of Play: Where the Canadian Teams Stand

Edmonton leads Canada in every measure available: most points, best points percentage (in the whole NHL), and a goal differential of +19 where no other Canadian team is better than +6.

Montreal and Ottawa complete the top three, and they are the only other Canadian teams currently in a playoff position, too.

The Oilers sit top of the Pacific, the Canadiens second in the Atlantic two points behind the Boston Bruins, and the Senators hold the first wild card in the East.

Toronto is the first team out, level on points with the Florida Panthers but having played two more games to get there.

The West is less forgiving. Calgary is three points off the second wild card spot despite winning seven of its last 10, and Winnipeg is four points off having won one.

Vancouver is last in the Western Conference, 10 points from a playoff place, and carries both the most pressure and the clearest diagnosis. No team in the league has conceded close to its 77 goals, and until that changes nothing else will.

One regulation win in 17 games is a record assembled on what the Canucks give up, not what they produce themselves.

Canadian NHL Games to Watch in November

From the first Saturday to the last full week, the November schedule throws Canada’s seven at each other repeatedly. Here are the standout matchups:

• Nov 7 – Montreal @ Toronto. A rematch of opening night, when Montreal won 3-2 in Toronto.
• Nov 7 – Vancouver @ Edmonton. The same evening as Canadiens-Leafs, and top versus bottom in the LeoVegas Power Rankings.
• Nov 10 – New Jersey @ Winnipeg. Hellebuyck’s first game back in Winnipeg, 18 days after the trade.
• Nov 14 – Edmonton @ Toronto. McDavid against McKenna on a Saturday night.
• Nov 17 – Ottawa @ Winnipeg. Two teams whose seasons have run in opposite directions since the first week of October.
• Nov 23 – Calgary @ Ottawa. Calgary’s only all-Canadian game of the month.

What’s Next?

Five weeks of hockey separate these NHL Power Rankings from the next entry and, on the evidence of the first month, they will not look much like this one.

These rankings return in early December, once another month has had its say. _The table is taking shape, but there’s a long way still to run.

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