Pollercoaster: Hockey pre-season
September 28th, 2009

According to this release from UND, Northeastern is effectively ranked 21st in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine pre-season poll. Here’s the rundown:
2009-10 USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason Poll
School, Pts, 1st place votes
1. Miami, 457, 4
2. Denver, 455, 13
3. Boston University, 438, 12
4. Michigan, 384
5. Notre Dame, 370, 5
6. Minnesota, 270
7. Cornell, 254
8. North Dakota, 227
9. Princeton, 223
10. UMass-Lowell, 175
11. Yale, 149
12. Boston College, 117
13. St. Cloud State, 106
14. Wisconsin, 80
15. Vermont, 73
Others Receiving Votes: New Hampshire 71, Minnesota Duluth 64, Ohio State 60, Air Force 43, Northern Michigan 31, Colorado College 8, Northeastern 8, Bemidji State 6, Harvard 3, Mercyhurst 3, Niagara 3, St. Lawrence 2.







22nd actually
This seems like an outrage to me. UVM lost their best player too. Are they really 9.125 times better than us (the vote differential)?!?