USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
January 24, 2005
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 Boston College (29) 15-3-3 586 2
2 Colorado College (10) 20-4-2 546 1
3 Wisconsin (1) 19-6-1 490 5
4 Michigan 19-6-1 470 3
5 Denver 16-6-1 439 6
6 New Hampshire 16-5-2 380 7
7 Minnesota 18-9-0 361 4
8 Cornell 13-4-2 341 9
9 Colgate 18-6-0 254 8
10 Ohio State 16-7-3 245 10
11 Harvard 10-5-2 149 13
12 North Dakota 14-10-2 147 12
13 Mass.-Lowell 14-5-3 126 15
14 Boston University 13-10-1 120 11
15 Maine 13-8-5 72 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Vermont 32,
Northern Michigan 29, Dartmouth 8, Bemidji State 2,
Michigan State 1, Michigan Tech 1, Nebraska-Omaha 1
My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.
[Q]Chris 02 Wrote:
USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
Others Receiving Votes: Vermont 32,
Northern Michigan 29, Dartmouth 8, Bemidji State 2,
Michigan State 1, Michigan Tech 1, Nebraska-Omaha 1
My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.
Edited 1 times. Last edit at 01/24/05 05:18PM by Chris 02.[/q]
A real Yuper no doubt! ::nut::
This vote may have been influenced by lager, temperature or both.
[q]My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.[/q]Well, the WCHA is clearly the best conference in the country. Obviously even their worst team must be better than any of the pretenders from back east. Plus MTU the incredible University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), which everyone knows is god's gift to college hockey!
The poll standings look about right to me, though I remain somewhat skeptical about Wisconsin. The next three weekends (Denver, at Minny, CC) will answer that question though.
MTU also recently split a series at #5 Denver, the loss by only one goal. I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. No more harm done than when Robert Morris got a vote in the 10/25 USCHO poll after they got their first win as a D-I program.
USA Today Poll
January 24, 2005
Team Pts (1st) Last Record Wks In Poll
1 Boston College 502 (27) 2 15-3-3 17
2 Colorado College 463 (6) 1 20-4-2 17
3 University of Wisconsin 448 5 19-6-1 17
4 University of Michigan 404 (1) 3 19-6-1 17
5 University of Denver 373 6 16-6-1 17
6 University of New Hampshire 338 7 16-5-2 17
7 University of Minnesota 292 4 18-9-0 17
8 Cornell University 281 8 13-4-2 15
9 The Ohio State University 219 10 16-7-3 15
10 Colgate University 210 9 18-6-0 12
11 Harvard University 149 13 10-5-2 6
12 University of North Dakota 100 12 14-10-2 17
13 Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell 95 15 14-5-3 5
14 Boston University 88 11 13-10-1 9
15 University of Maine 85 NR 13-8-5 16
Others receiving votes: Northern Michigan University 16,
University of Vermont 14, College of the Holy Cross 1,
University of Nebraska Omaha 1, Michigan Tech University 1.
Wow, the loss was devastating to Colgate. We move ahead of them by one place in USCHO and open it up from one place to two in USA Today.
[Q]jmh30 Wrote:
I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. [/q]
I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence. Schools like St. Cloud are "rebuilding", the Tech Huskies are just playing the overrated (at #4 that is) and underplaying Gophers, who will keep losing unless Briggs steps up his goaltending. They simply do not have the defensive talent to make up for poor goaltending. Thank God Cornell doesn't recruit the "offensive defensemen."
Personally, I'm pretty happy to see Michigan tech succeed, for no other reason than Jamie Russel is the coach. If Michigan Tech could magically turn into a hockey power, not only would it reflect well on the Cornell coaching staff (to a very small degree), but it would give Cornell a connection in the WCHA, something that sounds awfully nice to me.
[Q]ajec1 Wrote:
[Q2]jmh30 Wrote:
I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. [/Q]
I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence. Schools like St. Cloud are "rebuilding", the Tech Huskies are just playing the overrated (at #4 that is) and underplaying Gophers, who will keep losing unless Briggs steps up his goaltending. They simply do not have the defensive talent to make up for poor goaltending. Thank God Cornell doesn't recruit the "offensive defensemen."[/q]
dude. Good thing I noticed you're '08 or else I would have ridiculed you for acting like a freshman! ;-) :-D
Their Coach, Jamie Russell, used to be an assistant for Cornell and is half way through his second season with MTU. Give him time.
And I'm a homer and met Jamie so give Tech the point! :-D
[Q]ajec1 Wrote:
[Q2]jmh30 Wrote:
I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. [/Q]
I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence. Schools like St. Cloud are "rebuilding", the Tech Huskies are just playing the overrated (at #4 that is) and underplaying Gophers, who will keep losing unless Briggs steps up his goaltending. They simply do not have the defensive talent to make up for poor goaltending. Thank God Cornell doesn't recruit the "offensive defensemen."[/q]
Maybe it's for the best that my reply was erased when I hit "attach" instead of "post" ;-)
Freshmen... ;-) :-D
Not to jump the gun, but this season is really getting me excited for next year as well!
Man, this is a fun time to be a Cornell hockey fan!
[Q]Tom14850 Wrote:
Personally, I'm pretty happy to see Michigan tech succeed, for no other reason than Jamie Russel is the coach. If Michigan Tech could magically turn into a hockey power, not only would it reflect well on the Cornell coaching staff (to a very small degree), but it would give Cornell a connection in the WCHA, something that sounds awfully nice to me.[/q]
So we're hoping for a home-and-home with the Huskies in a few years perhaps. Anything that puts us one step further to drinking with--I mean playing tUMD. :-D
[q]I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence.[/q]Um... Michigan Tech has more National Championships in hockey than Cornell does (1962, 65, 75). Also 9 WCHA championships. The McNaughton Cup, possibly the most famous trophy in college hockey, is awarded to the RS winner in their conference (when they briefly switched to the CCHA in the 80's it came with them). They've consistenly been in the lower half of the WCHA since returning from the CCHA. But to say that the Huskies have nothing to rebuild and aren "hardly a bastion of hockey excellence" is quite unfair.
They also have the distinction of being the opponent in the final win of Ken Dryden's college career, in overtime, in the 1969 NCAA semifinal: http://www.tbrw.info/boxScores/box19690314.html
... and we came close to playing them again in the 1970 finals, as they lost to Clarkson 4-3 in the semifinal.
[Q]jkahn Wrote:
... and we came close to playing them again in the 1970 finals, as they lost to Clarkson 4-3 in the semifinal.[/q]
...and, can claim the only other college goaltender--Tony O.--to be named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Esposito and Dryden were the All-America goalies in 1967. Good year for college 'tenders. Interestingly, Espo started his NHL career in Montreal, but was traded to Chicago before Dryden's memorable 1971 NHL debut.