Polls 10/10

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Minnesota            (15)     0-0-0  765     2
 2 Denver               (23)     0-0-0  758     1
 3 Cornell                       0-0-0  668     4
 4 Boston College       ( 1)     0-0-0  662     3
 5 Ohio State           ( 1)     0-0-0  639     5
 6 Colorado College              2-0-0  624     6
 7 Michigan                      2-0-0  558     8
 8 New Hampshire                 0-0-0  509     9
 9 North Dakota                  1-1-0  455     7
10 Michigan State                2-0-0  373    17
11 Wisconsin                     1-1-0  359    10
12 Maine                         1-1-0  326    11
13 Northern Michigan             0-0-0  325    12
14 Boston University             0-0-0  315    13
15 Dartmouth                     0-0-0  223    14
16 Colgate                       1-0-0  210    18
17 Harvard                       0-0-0  199    15
18 Mass.-Lowell                  1-1-0  104    16
19 Vermont                       0-0-0   81    19
20 Bemidji State                 2-0-0   74     -

Others Receiving Votes: St. Lawrence 73, 
Miami 47, Nebraska-Omaha 14, Alaska-Fairbanks 7,
Mercyhurst 7, Minnesota-Duluth 4, St. Cloud State 4,
Clarkson 3, Niagara 3, Alabama-Huntsville 2,
Brown 2, Massachusetts 2, Minnesota State 2,
Rensselaer 2, Bowling Green 1

Seems they were very impressed by both Cornell and Minny this week

What a strange poll.

BC had a bad week of practice

Just wait till next week when the whole team washes thier jerseys in special super cleaner! We'll sparkle then!

Looks more like consolidation at the top. The top 2 teams gained ~100 pts, 3 & 4 got about 80 and so on. There were a lot of teams getting "other votes" last week, and that dropped this week, both in number of teams and in number of votes received.

[Q]oceanst41 Wrote:

Seems they were very impressed by both Cornell and Minny this week
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Well, we are undefeated.

And from USA Today we get:

USA TODAY/American Hockey men's poll

Updated Oct. 10, 2005

    Team (first-place votes)  Record    Points   LW
 1. Minnesota (19)            0-0-0      487      1  
 2. Denver (15)               0-0-0      465      1  
 3. Ohio State                0-0-0      403      3t  
 4. Cornell                   0-0-0      389      3t  
 5. Boston College            0-0-0      386      5  
 6. Colorado College          2-0-0      340      7
 7. Michigan                  2-0-0      308      8
 8. New Hampshire             0-0-0      262      9 
 9. North Dakota              1-1-1      210      6  
10. Boston University         0-0-0      146     12  
11. Wisconsin                 1-1-0      145     10  
12. Northern Michigan         0-0-0      129     13  
13. Michigan State            2-0-0      127     NR  
14. Maine                     1-1-0      122     11  
15. Harvard                   0-0-0       40     15

Others receiving votes: Colgate University, 38; Dartmouth College, 34; University of Massachusetts Lowell, 14; Miami (Ohio) University, 10; Bemidji State University, 8; St. Lawrence University, 8; University of Vermont, 6; Mercyhurst College, 2; Canisius College, 1.

Maybe Denver & Cornell both fell this week because some folks realized how difficult their opening games are. Denver goes on the road to Maine (who's played 2 games), while Cornell will face a Michigan State team that has already beaten NoDak, has 2 upcoming exhibitions games, plus gets to play Michigan before heading to Lynah. Home or not, that's about as tough an opening weekend as one could have. Should be a lot of fun.

kessel and other u of mn freshman looked pretty good in exhibition vs alberta. don't know if that factors in

[Q]Pete Godenschwager Wrote:

BC had a bad week of practice [/q]

The poll clearly penalized them for the bad ice that caused BC to cancel their exhibition this week.

minny is the most overrated team in the nation.. yet again..

[Q]Oat Wrote:

minny is the most overrated team in the nation.. yet again..[/q]

Probably has something to do with Phil Kessel joining a Frozen Four team from last year.