Here is the week-to-week progression of the Hockey-L voting conducted
by Bill Fenwick. He mentioned that H-Lers have somewhat settled on
the top (I think he said 15). You can see the path of these teams
from the pre-season poll to the most recent one of December 1, and
decide whether the respect, or lack therof, which you suspected in the
early polls was justified. Of curse, the season is only about 1/4
completed. Still time to gain enough respect to make the playoffs.
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W2Wh-l Pre Hockey-L
Oct November
TEAMS 20 27 3 10 17 24 1
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Michigan 7 6 3 1 1 1 1
Maine 8 6 4 2 2 2 2
Lake Sup 1 1 1 4 4 5 3
New Hamp 13 14 13 13 7 3 4
Boston U 2 2 2 5 8 8 5
Wisconsin 3 3 6 11 12 6 6
Colo Coll - 15 8 8 6 10 7
Harvard 5 5 5 7 5 7 8
BowlngGrn 23 17 11 3 3 4 9
RPI 4 4 10 6 11 16 10
Northestn 24 21 19 19 15 13 11
No Mich 14 10 12 9 10 14 11
Mich St 6 8 7 12 14 12 13
StLawrnce 18 19 24 22 16 11 14
Mass-Lwl 15 13 16 14 13 9 15
Colgate 26 - - - 20 17 16
Boston C 20 - 25 - - 21 17
Mich Tech 12 8 8 10 9 15 18
Brown 21 18 - - 18 18 19
West Mich 22 - - 24 - 22 20
Kent 31 - 23 - - - 21
AK-Anch 27 - 22 - 24 20 22
Miami 10 12 12 17 22 - 23
AK-Frbks 19 20 20 - 19 - 24
NotreDame - - - - - 19 25
Clarkson 10 11 14 15 17 - -
Denver 17 - - 23 21 - -
Minn-Dul 16 - 17 16 23 - -
Merrimack - - 18 18 - - -
Union - - - 20 - - -
Dartmouth 29 - 21 21 - - -
Minnesota 9 16 - - - - -
Cornell 25 - - - - - -
Ferris 28 - - - - - -
No Dakota 30 - - - - - -
Providnce 32 - - - - - -
St Cloud 33 - - - - - -
And here is the corresponding "tadpoll" or media poll progression.
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W2Wtad Pre Hockey-L
Oct November
TEAMS 20 27 3 10 17 24 1
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Michigan 6 6 4 1 1 1 1
Maine 4 5 3 1 1 2 2
Lake Sup 1 1 1 4 3 4 3
Boston U 3 2 2 3 7 3 4
Wisconsin 2 2 5 9 11 5 5
Colo Coll - - 8 8 6 9 6
New Hamp 13 - 15 13 8 7 7
RPI 5 4 11 6 9 12 8
BowlngGrn 16 - 10 5 5 8 9
Harvard 9 8 6 7 4 5 10
Mich St 8 7 6 12 13 10 11
No Mich 15 12 13 10 12 - 12
StLawrnce 20 - - - - 11 13
Northstrn - - - - 15 15 14
Mass-Lwl 14 14 - - 14 13 15
Mich Tech 11 9 9 11 10 14 -
Clarkson 11 11 12 14 - - -
Minn-Dul 17 13 14 15 - - -
Miami 7 10 15 - - - -
Denver 18 15 - - - - -
Minnesota 10 - - - - - -
AK-Fairb 19 - - - - - -
West Mich 21 - - - - - -