The St. Louis Blues stayed at No. 2 for the second straight week, finishing nine points behind the Lightning, who outpolled the competition by 23 points three weeks ago, 32 points two weeks ago, and 14 points last week.
Tampa Bay received 10 votes as the No. 1 team. St. Louis received the other three plus eight No. 2 votes and three No. 3 votes.
The Los Angeles Kings remained No. 3 for the second straight week.
The Winnipeg Jets moved into the top five at No. 5 in their second week in the Super 16 this season. The Nashville Predators also returned, at No. 8, after falling out last week.
To create the power rankings, each of the participating staff members puts together his or her version of what they think the Super 16 should look like. Those are submitted and a point total is assigned to each.
The team picked first is given 16 points, second gets 15, third gets 14 and so on down to No. 16, which gets one point.
Check out how the rankings came together once the math was finished this week, and be sure to stay for the information about each team.