UND #9 in your pre-season National Top Ten?  They're the DEFENDING
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS and they return most of their top players and you rank
them #9!?  It's obvious that the Fighting Sioux are the Rodney
Dangerfield of College Hockey.  NO RESPECT, PERIOD!  And you ranked
Denver #6?  They lost a ton of talent to graduation.  They'll have a
tough time getting home ice for the WCHA playoffs.  And one last thing,
it's obvious that you have a pro-east, anti-WCHA slant in your poll.
Only 3 WCHA teams in the Top 10?  Where's Colorado College?  Where's St.
Cloud State?  I understand that you might not have much information to
work with, but the DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS and THE BEST TEAM IN THE
NATION ranked #9?  If Michigan had repeated, they would have been #1 in
all of the polls, including yours.  But since it was UND that won it all,
everyone thinks that they "must have gotten lucky" or some sorry excuse
like that.  I thought that UND had proven themselves as the real thing,
but I guess some people still don't believe it yet.  Well, I guess
they'll have to repeat to prove the disbelievers wrong.  Don't bet
against them!
 
Brian.
(GO SIOUX, LET'S REPEAT!!!)
 
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