Once again, the Detroit Red Wings lead the Aggregated NHL Power Rankings -- but they're showing a few cracks in their armor. There's no danger of them dropping double-digits next week, but perhaps the Wings are hitting their first slump of the season. We'll see how that affects things, and whether or not the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins can overtake them. If we've learned anything so far this season, it's that the old adage of "What goes up must come down" is true...especially for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders.

As for the New Jersey Devils, well, they never got up this season. But hey, at least they're not the Islanders, who continue to occupy the very bottom with no real end in sight. At least Rick Dipietro's leg hasn't fallen off yet. Here are this week's rankings.

Here's something interesting to note. A few days ago, I noted that the Western Conference is ridiculously competitive right now. These ranking reflect this, as only three of the bottom ten teams come from out west (Minnesota, Edmonton, and Calgary), with only one of those being in the bottom five.

Coming up after the jump, conference rankings and the mega-spreadsheet.

It's the return of conference rankings with comparison's to the SBN power rankings. First, the Western Conference.

And the Eastern Conference.

There's more discrepancy between the aggregated ranks and SBN with out west than in the east. That's probably due to the hyper-competitive nature of the west; out east, the differences don't jump up more than two spots. Everything follows roughly the same curve.

For all you stats heads out there, here is the mega-spreadsheet.

And sorted by standard deviation.

Most Consensus: Sorry Islanders and Devils fans, everyone agrees that your team sucks and sucks second-most (respectively.

Biggest Outlier: No love for the Bolts from TSN. While everyone else has Tampa Bay ranked between seven and ten, TSN brings them all the way down to 19. Here's their reasoning:

If nothing else, the Lightning put the pressure on opponents, recording more than 35 shots a dozen times in 27 games, after achieving that mark 13 times in 82 games last season.

Hmm. Alrighty, then. That doesn't really explain anything, does it? Ok, well, we'll just leave it at that for now; let's see if the Bolts bounce back next week.