ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus

[Trotsky]

I mean it works both bad and good.

[CU2007]

I mean it works both bad and good.

Nice one

[Tom_Hamill]

A lot larger uncertainty this year than most with a new head coach.

[ursusminor]

I'll start.

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           [b]W      L      T      Pts[/b]

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 1  Quinnipiac         16 4 2 34
 2  [color=#b31313]Cornell[/color]         12 6 4 28
 3  Clarkson         12 8 2 26
 4  Colgate         11 9 2 24
 5  Union         11 9 2 24
 6  Harvard         11 9 2 24
 7  Dartmouth         10 9 3 23
 8  Yale          7 12 3 17
 9  Brown          7 13 2 16
10  Princeton          7 13 2 16
11  St. Lawrence          7 13 2 16
12  RPI                  8 14 0 16



Looking at that without looking at where it came from, it looks like RPI should be #9 since wins is the first tie-breaker. I'd rather have us indeed predicted as #12 since it can make RPI louse up your predictions worse if say half of RPI's portal additions and other new players perform as hoped. Note that Neutral Zone ranked RPI as #1 in the country in Portal additions. ::whistle::  Granted, I do not agree that simply adding the value of each new player makes sense. RPI was #33 is the country in other recruits (#5 in the ECAC). And then there is the expected benefit of a coach who got AIC out of the toilet. :-D

[billhoward]

And you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

[ursusminor]

And you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

[Trotsky]

Looking at that without looking at where it came from, it looks like RPI should be #9 since wins is the first tie-breaker.

Look where it came from.  It's right.  Where by right I mean the ass I pulled it from is ISO compliant.

[Trotsky]

And you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

RPI reddit (not even hockey) was 10x more amplified.  She unified the entire campus community.  The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all hated her.

[ursusminor]

And you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

RPI reddit (not even hockey) was 10x more amplified.  She unified the entire campus community.  The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all hated her.

There still are fans who think that Seth Appert should not have been fired.

[Trotsky]

And you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

RPI reddit (not even hockey) was 10x more amplified.  She unified the entire campus community.  The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all hated her.

There still are fans who think that Seth Appert should not have been fired.

"Where you stand depends on where you sit."

[chimpfood]

We are third in the ECAC preseason poll. https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/25/mens-ice-hockey-2025-26-ecac-hockey-preseason-poll-release.aspx

[Trotsky]

Seems reasonable.

[BearLover]

We are third in the ECAC preseason poll. https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/25/mens-ice-hockey-2025-26-ecac-hockey-preseason-poll-release.aspx

Clarkson ahead of Cornell doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me

[Trotsky]

We are third in the ECAC preseason poll. https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/25/mens-ice-hockey-2025-26-ecac-hockey-preseason-poll-release.aspx

Clarkson ahead of Cornell doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me

Most the league isn't up Cornell's ass as far as we here are, and they see Cornell losing half their team and their GOAT coach.

Unless you are saying it could have been Dartmouth 2nd.  I could see that.

[BearLover]

We are third in the ECAC preseason poll. https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/25/mens-ice-hockey-2025-26-ecac-hockey-preseason-poll-release.aspx

Clarkson ahead of Cornell doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me

Most the league isn't up Cornell's ass as far as we here are, and they see Cornell losing half their team and their GOAT coach.

Unless you are saying it could have been Dartmouth 2nd.  I could see that.

I am just saying that Cornell looks like a better team than Clarkson (and also Dartmouth for that matter). From a quick skim of who these teams added and who they lost, Clarkson (and certainly Dartmouth) still seem a step behind Cornell. Obviously I don't have much to go off of here but the USCHO poll which has Cornell 17 and Clarkson 22 seems more reasonable.