Live Elo ratings for all 32 NHL teams, updated after every game from results and margin of victory. 1500 is league-average; the gap between two teams maps directly to win probability. The same Elo feeds our NHL model.
| # | Team | Elo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Hurricanes | 1716 | |
| 2 | Vegas Golden Knights | 1605 | |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 1585 | |
| 4 | Buffalo Sabres | 1577 | |
| 5 | Colorado Avalanche | 1575 | |
| 6 | Montréal Canadiens | 1566 | |
| 7 | Washington Capitals | 1565 | |
| 8 | Minnesota Wild | 1561 | |
| 9 | Ottawa Senators | 1561 | |
| 10 | Boston Bruins | 1549 | |
| 11 | Dallas Stars | 1538 | |
| 12 | Utah Mammoth | 1533 | |
| 13 | St. Louis Blues | 1517 | |
| 14 | New Jersey Devils | 1509 | |
| 15 | Edmonton Oilers | 1505 | |
| 16 | Anaheim Ducks | 1501 | |
| 17 | Florida Panthers | 1493 | |
| 18 | New York Rangers | 1492 | |
| 19 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1486 | |
| 20 | Columbus Blue Jackets | 1481 | |
| 21 | Winnipeg Jets | 1475 | |
| 22 | San Jose Sharks | 1471 | |
| 23 | New York Islanders | 1468 | |
| 24 | Nashville Predators | 1450 | |
| 25 | Philadelphia Flyers | 1444 | |
| 26 | Seattle Kraken | 1443 | |
| 27 | Detroit Red Wings | 1426 | |
| 28 | Calgary Flames | 1407 | |
| 29 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 1401 | |
| 30 | Chicago Blackhawks | 1388 | |
| 31 | Los Angeles Kings | 1385 | |
| 32 | Vancouver Canucks | 1328 |
An Elo rating is a single number that captures a team's current strength. Every NHL team starts a season near the league average of 1500, then gains or loses points after each game. Beat a stronger team and you gain more; lose to a weaker one and you drop further. Because the system is self-correcting, the table you see above is a live, results-driven power ranking rather than an opinion.
The size of each move depends on the result and the margin of victory — a one-goal overtime win shifts the needle far less than a four-goal blowout — and on how surprising the result was relative to the two teams' ratings. Over an 82-game season that churn settles into a stable ordering that tracks which teams are genuinely playing the best hockey.
The practical value of Elo is that the gap between any two ratings converts directly into a win probability: roughly a 400-point edge implies about a 90% chance of winning a neutral-ice matchup, before home advantage. The same NHL Elo is one of the inputs to our NHL prediction model, so this page is a window into part of how those forecasts are built. Ratings refresh after every game and reset partway toward 1500 each new season to avoid carrying stale form across years.
Elo moves after every game (more for an upset or a blowout) and regresses toward the mean each new season.
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