Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-02-08.

(Tomorrow is the 98th anniversary of the birth of Durwood Heal,
creator of the Heal Point System)

Compiled by Wayne T. Smith



          School               KRACH  RHEAL   HEAL    RPI
      ---------------------------------------------------
       1   North Dakota            1      1      1      1
       2   Boston College          2      2      2      2
       3   Minnesota               3      3      5      4
       4   Maine                   4     11      3      3
       5   Minnesota-Duluth        5      6      8      6
       6   St. Cloud State         6      7     14     11
       7   Michigan                7      4      4      5
       8   Wisconsin               8      8     10      7
       9   Denver                  9     12     15     12
      10   Massachusetts          10     20      9     10
      11   Colorado College       11     14     20     17
      12   New Hampshire          12     17      7      8
      13   Miami                  13      5      6     13
      14   Ohio State             14      9     12      9
      15   Providence             15     25     21     14
      16   Michigan State         16     10     16     15
      17   Brown                  17     23     13     16
      18   Alaska-Anchorage       18     22     29     21
      19   Notre Dame             19     13     19     23
      20   Colgate                20     21     11     18
      21   Northern Michigan      21     19     27     30
      22   Dartmouth              22     27     18     19
      23   Cornell                23     24     24     22
      24   Alaska-Fairbanks       24     18     28     26
      25   Western Michigan       25     16     23     24
      26   Boston University      26     29     32     20
      27   Ferris State           27     15     22     27
      28   Rensselaer             28     28     26     25
      29   Harvard                29     30     31     29
      30   Niagara                30     31     25     31
      31   Yale                   31     32     34     34
      32   Minnesota State        32     34     46     42
      33   Bemidji State          33     35     30     35
      34   Northeastern           34     38     40     33
      35   Bowling Green          35     26     39     39
      36   Mass.-Lowell           36     39     42     37
      37   Clarkson               37     40     36     38
      38   Union                  38     36     37     40
      39   Merrimack              39     43     44     32
      40   Michigan Tech          40     42     52     44
      41   Holy Cross             41     46     17     28
      42   Nebraska-Omaha         42     33     45     46
      43   St. Lawrence           43     37     41     45
      44   Lake Superior          44     41     51     47
      45   Alabama-Huntsville     45     45     38     36
      46   Mercyhurst             46     44     33     41
      47   Quinnipiac             47     47     35     43
      48   Princeton              48     50     55     50
      49   Vermont                49     51     56     51
      50   Air Force              50     52     49     53
      51   Findlay                51     49     53     52
      52   Sacred Heart           52     55     43     48
      53   Connecticut            53     53     48     49
      54   Wayne State            54     48     54     55
      55   Canisius               55     54     47     54
      56   Army                   56     56     50     56
      57   Bentley                57     57     57     57
      58   American Int'l         58     58     58     58


(*) Special note for this week:

   The above results IGNORE 5 Mass.-Lowell forfeit games, as announced by
   the school and reported by USCHO.COM and other sources.

   There seems to be some question as to whether the forfeits will be
   treated as wins by the opposition or ignored for the purposes of
   ranking for the NCAA tournament.  The NCAA bylaws seem to say the
   former, yet some state recent precedence suggest the latter.  As the
   latter seems most fair to this reporter, HEAL and other rankings from
   this site use the latter: the 5 games below are ignored.

   Fyi, the forfeits are all Mass.-Lowell games from 2003-12-27 through
   2004-01-24, including five games won on the ice by Mass.-Lowell:

      12/28/03 Union               1 vs Mass.-Lowell        0      nc
      01/03/04 Massachusetts       1 at Mass.-Lowell        0      he
      01/04/04 Mass.-Lowell        0 at Massachusetts       1      he
      01/10/04 Mass.-Lowell        0 at Michigan State      1      nc
      01/16/04 Mass.-Lowell        0 at Merrimack           1      he

The above RPI rankings are unofficial.

For individual rankings and season composites, please visit

      http://Maine.edu/HEAL/

Game scores for these rankings have been provided by US College Hockey
Online, sometimes supplemented by other sources.  USCHO's composite of
all Division I men's ice hockey games is available at

      http://uscho.com/

in the section marked Men's Division I schedules.  In addition, USCHO
has extensive information about KRACH, its underlying methods and
history, as well as the methods used by the NCAA.

This ranking report is available for republication without restriction.
It may be reformatted or used in part without restriction.  Reference
to the HEAL web site or the author (Wayne T. Smith;  [log in to unmask]) is
appreciated.