Boston College Hockey Ranked #5 In Preseason USCHO.com Poll
by A.J Black on Sep 26, 2011 8:06 PM EDT
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PrintTime to take a break from complaining about Boston College football, and endless speculation in conference realignment. It's time to talk college hockey! Rankings were released today, and of course your BC Eagles are near the top of the poll.
First let's get the bad news out of the way. Notre Dame gets the honor of being ranked #1 in the USCHO.com preseason poll. The currently conference-less Fighting Irish earned 11 first place votes, followed by Miami of Ohio who came in second with 12 first place votes (but less total points total). North Dakota finished at #3 and Denver at #4.
Now the good news. Boston College came in ranked #5 in the country, finishing with two first place votes. Does BC and Jerry York in particular get some of that name recognition love that the media gives Notre Dame and Penn State in football polls? Whatever the reason is, seeing BC ranked in the Top 10 is exciting, especially with the low expectations for the very young BC basketball team and the plummeting football season. Lots of questions about this team, but never doubt this team.
The USCHO.com top ten is rounded off by Michigan (#6), BC-slaying Colorado College (#7), defending champions Minnesota Duluth (#8), Yale (#9) and that other school on Commonwealth Ave. (#10). Other rankings of note include UNH (#12) and Maine (#16). And for some reason UMass, Northeastern and Providence College (??) got votes as well. Remind your favorite hockey voters, it's never safe to drink and vote.
In the USA Today poll also released today, Miami ranked first, with Notre Dame second, North Dakota (#3), Denver (#4), BC (#5) and that other college on Commonwealth Ave. (#6)
BC Hockey opens in 10 days. Time to get excited.
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According to this poll, we play the 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 15th, and 16th ranked teams in the country with the possibility of playing the number 3 team as well.
Holy f-ing crap.
Yep
Brutal first half sched.
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by Brian Favat on Sep 26, 2011 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
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Not sure about how I feel about this ranking. Our goalie situation is very worrisome to me. I know Milner has it in him, but I think we’re going to drop a few games because of his shakiness in net. Let’s be honest here, our defense was porous last year at times to say the least, and Muse had to make several truly astonishing saves multiple times a game to make up for defensive miscues. I hope Milner can regain some of his freshman year composure now that he’s the man for the Eagles.
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