The Lightning, who have three games remaining before the calendar flips to 2019, lead the NHL with 54 wins and 113 points in 81 regular-season games played in 2018. The Winnipeg Jets, who are again No. 2 in the Super 16, are second with 53 wins and 112 points in 78 games.
But what will happen in 2019 to the Lightning, Jets and the rest of the teams ranked this week? That's part of the exercise in the final Super 16 of this calendar year.
To create the power rankings, each of the 13 staff members puts together his or her version of what 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.
Here is latest Super 16, with a look back at the biggest moment of 2018 and a 2019 prediction for each team: