Cornell Women's Hockey: Offseason

[ursusminor]

Slebodnick Earns Spot on American U-22 Select Team

"The only other ECAC Hockey school to have representatives on the U.S. U-22 team was Harvard. The Crimson are represented by five members of their team."

Is RPI no longer in ECAC Hockey? ::doh::

[bnr24]

I noticed the exclusion of RPI...Given that they have as many players attending as we do, it doesn't quite make sense.  Interesting that there are no CHA teams, only HEA and WCHA rounding out the remaining spots as well as two from the CWHL.

I would actually love if Quinnipiac hosted the 2014 Frozen Four.  It would be nice given that the previous locations since they began in '01 include:
Minneapolis, Minnesota (2001, 2006, 2010, 2013) [WCHA]
Durham, NH (2002, 2005) [HEA]
Duluth, MN (2003, 2008, 2012) [WCHA]
Providence, RI (2004) [corporate arena used by Providence for basketball and the AHL for hockey]
Lake Placid, NY (2007) [enough said]
Boston, MA (2009) [HEA]
Erie, PA (2011) [Corporate arena used by OHL, indoor football, and NCA development league]

So it would be a new location.  It would even out the number of times it is on our coast instead of in Minnesota.  And it would be an ECAC venue for the first time since the NCAA DI tournament.

[George64]

Six women icers earn place at Hockey Canada's September camp.

[Jim Hyla]

Women's Hockey Tabbed as 2012-13 League Favorite by Coaches; Three Named to Preseason All-League Team The CU website info and the ECAC press release on the rankings and on the preseason team.

For those who don't want to read it all,

the poll:

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ECAC Hockey Women's Preseason Coaches' Poll
1.     Cornell (9 first-place votes), 119 points
2.     Harvard (3), 109 points
3.     St. Lawrence, 100 points
4.     Clarkson, 90 points
5.     Dartmouth, 86 points
6.     Quinnipiac, 71 points
7.     Princeton, 62 points
8.     Rensselaer, 46 points
9.     Brown, 40 points
10.   Colgate, 35 points
11.   Union, 22 points
12.   Yale, 12 points


and the team:

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ECAC Hockey Women's Preseason All-League Team
G: Erica Howe, Clarkson
D: Laura Fortino, Cornell
D: Lauriane Rougeau, Cornell
F: Kelly Babstock, Quinnipiac
F: Jillian Dempsey, Harvard
F: Brianne Jenner, Cornell

And we're third in USCHO Preseason Poll.

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USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll
September 17, 2012
Team (First Place Votes) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (15) 34- 5-2 150 NR
2 Wisconsin 33- 5-2 128 NR
3 Cornell        30- 5-0 109 NR
4 Boston College 24-10-3 105 NR
5 North Dakota 22-12-3 93 NR
6 Boston University 23-14-1 67 NR
7 St. Lawrence 24-10-4 41 NR
8 Minnesota-Duluth 21-14-1 33 NR
9 Northeastern 22- 7-4 30 NR
10 Mercyhurst 23- 8-3 29 NR
Others receiving votes: Harvard 28, Clarkson 6, Providence 3, Quinnipiac 2, Robert Morris 1.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/#ixzz26lXbtsQ6