First National Poll is Released
by WCHBlog on Sep 27, 2010 1:09 PM PDT
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PrintUSA Today/USA Hockey Magazine released their first national poll of the season today and it looks like this:
1. Boston College
2. North Dakota
3. Miami
4. Michigan
5. Yale
6. St. Cloud
7. Maine
8. New Hampshire
9. Minnesota-Duluth
10. Cornell
11. Denver
12. Alaska
13. Wisconsin
14. Boston University
15. Minnesota
Quick thoughts:
-Boston College is clearly number one by a pretty wide margin here. It's standard practice for the first poll of the year to put last year's winner at the top, regardless of how much they lost, but BC is going to be really, really good.
-I'm not sure I buy Michigan as the fourth best team out there.
-There's four teams from the Oversize Consonant ranked ahead of the two that could soon be leaving them, and none of the four have a ton of recruits that Minnesota and Wisconsin seriously went after.
-I kind of laughed at Minnesota being ranked, but they're the sixth Oversize Consonant on the list, which is about where I picked them, so I guess. It doesn't really say much for people's opinions on the single-font CCHA.
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Michigan...
… fans could care less about polls, or the opinions of elitist W fans who have had little to brag about in the past couple of years.
Anything can happen come tourney time as long as they are there. The talent and experience should put them in a good position this season, although Miami will still run away and hide in the CCHA.
Michigan is a tough team to read. How will they balance Hunwick and Hogan if they rotate them. Also how will their defensive corps. play in front of the goalies. Definitely a top 10 team headed into the season but 4 seems a little high. Although I agree preseason polls hold no water but just provide for some good banter to get us through the final stretch of a hockeyless time
by spartanhockey89 on Sep 28, 2010 8:05 PM PDT reply actions
