I just happend to look up at my bulletin board and I discovered that I had written down Drop The Puck's preseason predictions for each conference. Each team is listed below with their actual finish, their predicted finish and the differnce between the two (D for Down, U for Up). Actual Predicted Difference ECAC Harvard 1 2 u1 Clarkson 2 3 u1 RPI 3 1 d2 Brown 4 6 u2 Vermont 5 10 u5 Union 6 12 u6 Colgate 7 7 -- Cornell 8 9 u1 Princeton 9 11 u2 St. Lawrence 10 4 d6 Dartmouth 11 5 d6 Yale 12 8 d4 Biggest discrepancy: Union, St. Lawrence and Dartmouth # Correctly Predicted (within 1 place): 4 CCHA Michigan 1 3 u2 Lake Superior 2 2 -- Michigan State 3 1 d2 Western Mich. 4 8 u4 Miami 5 4 d1 Bowling Green 6 5 d1 Ferris St. 7 7 -- Notre Dame 8 11 u3 Illinois-Chic. 9 9 -- Ohio State 10 12 u2 Kent 11 6 d5 (Alaska-Fair. 12 9 d3)* * UAF did not play a full conference schedule as an affiliate. Since DTP included them, I did too. Biggest Discrepancies: Kent, Western Michigan # Correctly Predicted (within 1 place): 5 WCHA Colorado Coll. 1 10 u9 Minnesota 2 4 u2 Wisconsin 3 1 d2 St. Cloud 4 7 u3 N. Michigan 5 5 -- Alaska-Anchor. 6 9 u3 Minnesota-Dul. 7 8 u1 North Dakota 8 6 d2 Denver 9 3 d6 Michigan Tech 10 2 d8 Biggest Discrepancies: Colorado College, Michigan Tech, Denver # Correctly Predicted (within 1 place): 2 HE Boston U. 1 1 -- UM-Lowell 2 4 u2 New Hampshire 3 2 d1 Northeastern 4 7 u3 Providence 5 6 u1 Boston College 6 5 d1 Merrimack 7 8 u1 Maine 8 3 d5 ** Biggest Discrepancy: Maine, Northeastern And I think we all know what the ** signifies ;-). # Correctly Predicted (within 1 place): 5 Not bad, DTP correctly predicted 16 of the 32 conference teams. Considering, the randomness of injuries and the Maine debacle, I think they did a pretty good job. Eric Hoffman Cornell '88 SUNY-Albany?? Lets GO RED!!!......Princeton's in New Jersey :*). Go SLU! (I don't want the Red to play Harvard). Go Union (my newly adopted second favorite team). McCutcheon must go.