The Polls...

[Greg Berge]

... don't matter.  But here's how the past week's top 10 did.

01 WW NODAK
02 WL UNH
03 WT MAINE
04 LT BC
05 WW CC
06 LL DENVER
07 WW CORNELL
08 LL MICHIGAN
09 LW FERRIS
10 WW MINNESOTA

I could see some movement in next week's polls, with the Red perhaps moving up a notch (past Denver) or even two (past BC).

[Will]

We have to move past Denver at least.  They got swept by CC this weekend.  Moving past BC is possible as well, as CC is bound to move up a notch.

[Ben Doyle 03]

As Greg said, they don't matter so here's my guess for next week. . .


North Dakota stays in first; CC moves into the second, Maine should hold steady at number three, UHN ;-) will fall to forth, BC slips a notch to fifth, we move into sixth, Denver drops a couple to seventh, while the Gophers climb into the top eight, After that ir's anyones call as #'s 8-15 were a mess.

any thoughts???

[Greg Berge]

I'll be interested to see if Cornell picks up any more first place votes, though I think the Red will move up no farther than 5th (and probably just to 6th).  This week there's been a lot of discussion on various boards about the early PWR, RPI, and KRACH, and Cornell is #1 across the board.  Cornell is also an unheard-of (for an ECAC team) 7th in schedule strength -- only two other teams in the top 10 in PWR are in the top 10 in schedule strength, and North Dakota is something like 44th.

[Ben Doyle 03]

Readin' the USCHO board lately??? :-) Man-o-man those boys in the WCHA and CCHA need to manufacture a new excuse other than the EZAC. . .WoW!!!

The only thing that matters is that we keep winning and all of our opponents will keep saying they didn't bring their "A game," no one will take us seriously, and you all know where that might lead. . .;-)

Note to Hockey gods: no woofing took place in this post. . .it's just one guys humble opinion.

[Al DeFlorio]

Ben, I think you're safe.;-)

But we all should continue to be careful of offending the woofing gods.  It's unseemly, too.  ::help::

[littleredfan]

I wish we could ban discussion on polls. Theres no point to polls or discussion on them at all. Just play and win and enjoy the games.

[jason]

littleredfan, you're not obligated to read every thread on eLF. Given your dislike for conversations regarding the polls, you might want to avoid clicking on threads with suggestive titles, like, say "The Polls...". :-)

[littleredfan]

The allure of 'new' posts on a slow Sunday after a hockey weekend is just too much :-/

[Beeeej]

I wish we could ban discussion on banning discussion on polls.

Beeeej

[Ex-Long Die Guy]

Me too.  Let's supress discussions of all things we don't like.

[Tub(a)]

If there is one thing you are for, ex-long die guy, it's for not being for anything  ::yark::

[Adam \'01]

We could start a Davey Francis tribute post instead, seeing as "Yo Momma" has made a return to the boards....

[gtsully]

I'm just psyched that someone else is still calling New Hampshire "UHN" - my roommate at the time, who didn't even go to Cornell, actually spotted those tiniboppers at the game holding the cards the wrong way, which led to our section starting the chant.  He's now a Cornell hockey fan for life, and he can't wait for the game at Lynah East on 2/15...

But that might have been the funniest thing I've ever seen at a game - I don't think I'll ever be able to refer to them as UNH again...

[JohnnyB]

Actually, they weren't teenieboppers.  They were in their mid-thirties.  I was sitting in the row in front of them.  I went to UNH as well as Cornell but we all held our tongues to see how long the whole thing would last.  

-J