Announcing...
 
The Second Annual College Hockey Discussion List preseason poll!
 
Since the TSN staff have weighed in with their opinions on who the top teams
in college hockey will be this year, 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 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 Mike's composite, it appears that the first games of the new season
will be played on October 15th, so I'd like to set the deadline for sub-
mitting poll responses for Monday, October 11th 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 a week or two after the preseason one
comes out (more on that later...)
 
Please note:  The HOCKEY-L poll will have a slightly different Email address
this year.  Please Email your rankings to:
 
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Feel free to attach comments to your rankings as well.  Again, the indi-
vidual responses WILL NOT be made public.
 
Complete background and voting instructions for the HOCKEY-L poll are now
available in the archives (thanks, Wayne!).  If you want a copy, send a mail
message to:
 
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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:
 
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At last count, there were 43 Division I teams (i.e. teams eligible for the
NC$$ Division I tournament).  They are:
 
ECAC                               Hockey East
----                               -----------
Brown                              Boston College
Clarkson                           Boston University
Colgate                            Maine
Cornell                            UMass-Lowell
Dartmouth                          Merrimack
Harvard                            New Hampshire
Princeton                          Northeastern
RPI                                Providence
St. Lawrence
Union
Vermont
Yale
 
CCHA                               WCHA
----                               ----
Alaska-Fairbanks                   Alaska-Anchorage
Bowling Green                      Colorado College
Ferris State                       Denver
Illinois-Chicago                   Michigan Tech
Kent                               Minnesota
Lake Superior                      Minnesota-Duluth
Miami                              North Dakota
Michigan                           Northern Michigan
Michigan State                     St. Cloud
Notre Dame                         Wisconsin
Ohio State
Western Michigan
 
Independents
------------
Air Force
Army *
UMass *
 
* Note:  Independent teams Army and UMass are not eligible for the NC$$
  Division I tournament this year, since they have not scheduled the
  required number of games against Division I competition.
 
Have fun!  Hope to hear from you.
--
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86 and probably '94
LET'S GO RED!!
In honor of Charles M. Schulz's induction into the US Hockey Hall of Fame:
 
"Well, we lost the first game of the season again.
 I shouldn't let it bother me, but it does.
 We always seem to lose the first game of the season and the last game of the
 season...
 AND ALL THE STUPID GAMES IN-BETWEEN!"
-- Charlie Brown, in "Peanuts"