Now that fall is officially here, I'd like to announce...
The Third Annual College Hockey Discussion List Preseason Poll!
The TSN staff have weighed in with their opinions on who the top teams in
college hockey will be this year, and, well, I think we can do better than
that mess. So, once again, I'd like to run a preseason edition of the
HOCKEY-L poll. For those of you who are new to the list, the HOCKEY-L poll
is a weekly poll of the top 15 Division I men's ice hockey teams and is open
to all HOCKEY-L or HOCKEY-D subscribers. This is a private poll, and ALL
RESPONSES WILL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. The only information that will
be released will be a composite of all the responses that were received. As
always, responses that appear to be frivolous will not be counted; however,
if your vote happens to contain fewer than 15 teams, go ahead and send it
along.
From the composite schedule, it appears that the first game of the new season
will be played on October 13th, so I'd like to set the deadline for sub-
mitting poll responses for Monday, October 10th at midnight. The composite
will be posted the following morning. Responses received after the deadline
will not be counted in the preseason poll. I expect to start the regular-
season version of the HOCKEY-L poll two weeks after the preseason one comes
out (more on that later...)
Please Email your rankings to:
[log in to unmask]
Feel free to attach comments to your rankings as well. Again, the individual
responses WILL NOT be made public.
Complete background and voting instructions for the HOCKEY-L poll are
available in the archives (thanks, Wayne!). If you want a copy, send a mail
message to:
[log in to unmask]
and in the *body* (not the subject) of the message, include the line
GET HOCKEY-L POLLINST
Other questions about the HOCKEY-L poll can be sent to me at:
[log in to unmask]
At last count, there were 44 Division I teams (i.e. teams eligible for the
NC$$ tournament). They are:
ECAC Hockey East
---- -----------
Brown Boston College
Clarkson Boston University
Colgate Maine
Cornell Mass-Amherst
Dartmouth Mass-Lowell
Harvard Merrimack
Princeton New Hampshire
RPI Northeastern
St. Lawrence Providence
Union
Vermont
Yale
CCHA WCHA
---- ----
Bowling Green Alaska-Anchorage
Ferris State Colorado College
Illinois-Chicago Denver
Lake Superior Michigan Tech
Miami Minnesota
Michigan Minnesota-Duluth
Michigan State North Dakota
Notre Dame Northern Michigan
Ohio State St. Cloud
Western Michigan Wisconsin
Independents
------------
Air Force
Alaska-Fairbanks (CCHA affiliate -- will participate in 1995 CCHA playoffs)
Army
Have fun! Hope to hear from you.
--
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86 and '94.5
LET'S GO RED!! DJF 5/27/94
"My wife and I recently had a baby... yeah, we had a kid so we could pre-
board airplanes."
-- Dennis Miller
|
