I’m not sure which implosion has been more entertaining — Detroit or Ottawa. Who am I kidding, obviously it’s been the Sens. While Detroit and Ottawa are falling down, Montreal has been climbing up the standings since Carey Price returned to the net.

The Lightning had a successful week last week, but it wasn’t all that Lightning-esque. They won two of three games, beating Buffalo and San Jose but losing to Boston.

The Lightning had gone four games without scoring more than two goals, which is uncharacteristic for one of the NHL’s best offences. They split up the Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov duo that had been dynamite all year and it seemed to work, as the new-look Lightning scored five on the Sharks.

The Leafs went on their Western Canadian swing last week and had a pretty good time. They handily beat the Flames 4-1 and then Kris Russell gave them a gift en route to a 6-4 win over the Oilers. They had a chance for a perfect sweep, but the Leafs came out short to the Canucks in a 2-1 loss.

Since Carey Price returned from his injury, the Canadiens are rolling. That’s what an MVP will do for you. Back on Nov. 25, he shut out the Sabres and since then, Montreal has won five in a row and have climbed into third place in the Atlantic Division.

Last week, they beat Columbus, Ottawa, and swept a home-and-home set with Detroit. Of those teams, only Columbus is Actually Good, so we’ll have to wait until the Habs beat a non-Sabres/Wings/Sens team before we rave about them.

The Bruins are low-key right in the thick of things because they seem to have played significantly fewer games than anyone else. Boston won both of their games last week, edging the Lightning 3-2 and shutting out the Flyers 3-0. The team has won six of its last seven games and they have a handful of players set to return from injury in the next couple weeks.

After a shockingly decent start to the season, the Red Wings are going through a free fall down the standings. Not only have they lost seven games in a row, but they’ve been getting routinely dominated throughout the skid.

Last week, they lost to Los Angeles and Montreal twice in a row, including a 6-3 loss at home and a 10-1 thrashing on the road. The Wings are finally showing their true colours.

Maybe Detroit’s free fall would be a bigger deal if it wasn’t completely overshadowed by what’s going on in Ottawa. The Sens have lost seven of eight games since returning home from their Sweden trip and people are suggesting Matt Duchene has turned them into the Colorado Avalanche.

The only issue with that is the Sens were already really bad before they acquired Duchene. They were just massively overachieving.

The Panthers have started to break away from the Sabres in the toilet bowl of the Atlantic Division and even have Detroit and Ottawa on their radar now. They went 2-1-1 last week, beating the Devils and Rangers, but losing to the Sharks, and then losing to the Hurricanes in overtime.

The Sabres are so, so, soooo bad. They’ve lost three games in a row and are in the middle of a streak in which they’ve lost 11 of 12 games. The only win in that stretch came against the Oilers, which is hilarious.