Who's the Best Organization in Hockey Right Now?

(Credit: Christina Shapiro/Texas Stars)

After Dallas clinched the playoffs this weekend [Ed. Note: NHL.com had an 'x' by Dallas in error when I pulled this data. Dallas can clinch with a win on Tuesday.], it occurred to me that the Dallas organization will have all 3 teams across the NHL, AHL and ECHL make the playoffs for just the second time since Texas started as a franchise. That made me wonder: who has the best org in hockey right now? To do this, I just threw together all of the win percentages for each organization and sorted them by average.

And yea, we can argue about whether this is an accurate measure of "best," but it's certainly a measure. Mostly, this is just some idle Monday morning spreadsheet work.

Full table is here:

NHL		AHL		ECHL		AVG
Washington	0.754	Hershey	0.633	South Carolina	0.656	0.681
NY Islanders	0.607	Bridgeport	0.600	Missouri	0.802	0.670
Los Angeles	0.655	Ontario	0.693	Manchester	0.638	0.662
Detroit	0.576	Grand Rapids	0.656	Toledo	0.690	0.641
Dallas	0.651	Texas	0.598	Idaho	0.609	0.619
Nashville	0.590	Milwaukee	0.646	Cincinnati	0.587	0.608
Pittsburgh	0.611	WBS	0.633	Wheeling	0.579	0.608
New Jersey	0.527	Albany	0.675			0.601
Anaheim	0.627	San Diego	0.603	Utah	0.570	0.600
Florida	0.618	Portland	0.563			0.591
San Jose	0.611	San Jose	0.552	Allen	0.608	0.590
Chicago	0.623	Rockford	0.641	Indy	0.469	0.578
Carolina	0.528	Charlotte	0.546	Florida	0.651	0.575
Boston	0.589	Providence	0.609	Atlanta	0.523	0.574
Toronto	0.430	Toronto	0.735	Orlando	0.548	0.571
St. Louis	0.637	Chicago	0.492			0.564
NY Rangers	0.611	Hartford	0.562	Greenville	0.516	0.563
Tampa Bay	0.604	Syracuse	0.515			0.560
Philadelphia	0.571	Lehigh Valley	0.469	Reading	0.570	0.537
Colorado	0.548	San Antonio	0.439	Fort Wayne	0.619	0.535
Calgary	0.472	Stockton	0.527	Adirondack	0.594	0.531
Columbus	0.458	Lake Erie	0.600	Kalamazoo	0.508	0.522
Vancouver	0.465	Utica	0.571			0.518
Buffalo	0.466	Rochester	0.516	Elmira	0.554	0.512
Minnesota	0.541	Iowa	0.385	Quad City	0.540	0.489
Ottawa	0.521	Binghamton	0.461	Evansville	0.476	0.486
Edmonton	0.433	Bakersfield	0.544	Norfolk	0.461	0.479
Arizona	0.479	Springfield	0.429	Rapid City	0.469	0.459
Montreal	0.493	St. John's	0.508	Brampton	0.363	0.455
Winnipeg	0.444	Manitoba	0.367	Tulsa	0.549	0.453

Here are some notes:

• Dallas is in the top 5.
• There are five empty ECHL slots because there are only 28 ECHL teams and 3 of them are independent. Those clubs are Alaska, Wichita and the Colorado Eagles.
• The New York Islanders get a major boost from the Missouri Mavericks, led by G Josh Robinson, with an eye-popping .802 win percentage.
• Detroit, fighting to keep its playoff streak alive, has an AHL and ECHL team that are the top of their respective divisions.
• Washington is really cruising as an organization. That stack has 14 championships under its belt. Hershey (11) and South Carolina (3) have them all; Washington could get its first this year.
• Arizona is the only organization without a single team above 0.500.
• I honestly had completely forgotten Tulsa was affiliated with Manitoba.