Chirps from Center Ice

It’s Week 8, the first week of December is upon us, summer is but a faint memory.

There are powerhouse teams, terrible teams, average teams and elevator teams.

Elevator teams? Exactly as you would think. Up one week, down the next. The hope is with these teams is that you have a bunch of other elevator teams in your division and you are going up when the other teams are heading down when it all is said and done in April.

There seems to be more and more elevator teams as some transition from good to bad, bad to good.

Also, there is a brief survey at the end of the Power Rankings this week. Some people have asked that I add team records. If I get enough votes, I’ll add it next week. Information at the bottom.

Anyway, the Penguins are certainly a powerhouse team and they reclaim the top spot in the Week 8 Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings.

To see the order of the other 29 teams, click through the jump if you didn’t link in direct.

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It’s Thanksgiving Week, and are you thankful for your AHL team? For some, there is a lot to be thankful. Wilkes-Barre, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Ontario, Toronto and Chicago are among teams that can be thankful this week.

But then there are other teams like Iowa, Providence, Utica and Rochester that don’t have anything to be thankful for. They have a lot of work to do.

If you didn’t link in direct, hit the jump to find out who the new number one is.

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What a weekend it was. You had comebacks a plenty and blowouts galore. Lots of teams are in great position heading into a week before Thanksgiving while other teams have a lot of work to do.

It’s the Penguins and Rampage world though, and the rest of the AHL is just living in it.

Not much change to the Top 5 this week. Lots of teams elevatored up and down this week behind these teams.

Hit the jump if you didn’t link in direct to see where your favorite team ended up this week.

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Five weeks into the AHL season and teams are starting to gain an identity. Some are great no matter what, some are good one week and poor the next and some are terrible no matter how you slice it.

The challenge in curating this weeks version of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings was that the top 10 teams were all pretty easy to sort, as were the bottom 10. 11-20? Much harder. These are the teams I think that, depending on where you are (closer to 10 or closer to 20) can be great one week or bad the next.

It’s a familiar team atop this weeks rankings and when I say familiar, if you are a regular reader to this blog, you will see why when you click through the jump if you didn’t link in direct…

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Week 4 of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings have rolled in and teams are up and down on the elevator while others remain where they are.

There are surprise teams, great teams and teams that a month into the season, we still can’t get a handle on.

There is a team at the top that gave last week’s team at the top all they could handle and beat them, twice in their building.

There is a team at the bottom who we are waiting, and waiting, and waiting on to get good and haven’t yet. Maybe they just aren’t as good as we thought?

Anyway, I don’t want to spoil it all for you, so pop through the jump if you didn’t link in direct to see the order of teams.

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So Week Three of the AHL season is in the books and there are a lot of questions.

What the heck happened to the Central Division? Many had the Central as the most competitive division at the start of the season. It isn’t. It is a division of haves and have nots. It’s a division of surprises (Lake Erie) and disappointments (Grand Rapids)

There are two teams that have yet to suffer a regulation loss this season and they both reside in the Pacific Division, both are at the top of the Week 3 Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings and both play each other twice this week.

If you haven’t figured out who they are yet, click through the jump and see, as well as where your favorite team ended up this week.

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It’s the Week Two offering of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings and we sense a theme.

— There are three undefeated teams left and they all reside in the Pacific Division.
— There are two teams in the Atlantic Division that no one is talking about and no they aren’t the Sound Tigers or Penguins.
— There are a lot of good teams that were supposed to be bad and many bad teams that were supposed to be good.

To find out more and to see the whole list from top to bottom, click through the jump…

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