NHL weekend rankings: Ovechkin breaks the goals record, plus my worst rankings

We’re down to two editions of the Weekend Rankings left, before we run out of regular season runway. Next week is the season finale, which is always fun, because it's when we ditch the Top 5 for a Top 16 (or more), check in on the Gold Plan standings, and make some oddly specific predictions.

This week is not so fun. At least for me – some of you seem to enjoy it. It’s time for our annual look back at the very worst Top 5 and Bottom 5 picks I made over the course of the season.

Look, I never said I was perfect. I also never said I wasn’t, and it’s possible that all of these “bad picks” were really just made ironically, or to see if you were paying attention, or as occasional intentional mistakes that I made in tribute to watching too much Astro Boy as a kid. But whatever went wrong, these picks have not aged well, and I have to take my medicine.

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