The College Hockey season is underway and just as anticipated there is a lot of early shaking up going on. Boston University was ranked second in the preseason poll and got beat by two unranked opponents this year.
One of which was the Northeastern University Huskies. The result was what I expected, just not the score. NU won 1-0 in front of a 42 save performance by freshman goalie Chris Rawlings. However, the next night, the Huskies went and got lit up by Boston College 5-1 after scoring the first goal.
The other team BU lost to this weekend was the Maine Blackbears. They were picked seventh in the preseason Hockey East coaches poll and now sit in a tie for last place with BU and Northeastern.
The University of Massachusetts schools, Amherst and Lowell, are sitting in first and second place, both teams have beaten Boston University as well.
This weekend Northeastern and BU both have a chance to climb out of the basement as they are playing Maine and Merrimack respectively. Merrimack was picked last but has a couple impressive wins, Boston College and University of Vermont, on their early season resume.
Also, Boston College will look for some early revenge against UVM, these two teams met a couple weeks ago and UVM won 4-1 in Vermont. They play two games at BC this Saturday and Sunday.
My Hockey East Power Rankings:
University of Massachusetts at Lowell Riverhawks
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Minutemen
University of Vermont Catamounts
Boston College Eagles
Univeristy of New Hampshire Wildcats
Northeastern University Huskies
Merrimack College Warriors
Boston Univeristy Terriers
Providence College Friars
Univeristy of Maine Blackbears
On the national stage, Miami(Ohio) keeps rolling, sweeping Michigan over the weekend, at Michigan. They are now 8-1-1 and almost the unanimous #1 team in the nation garnering 49 of the 50 first place votes, and 999 out of possible maximum 1000 points, in the USCHO.com poll.
North Dakota is currently second and the only other team to get a first place vote.
The big movers:
BU down from 7 to 17
Yale down from 6 to 12
Bemidji State up from 11 to 7
UMass Lowell up from 8 to 5
Alaska up from 13 to 9
New Teams:
Quinnipiac #20
Saying Goodbye to:
Wisconsin from #18 to unranked
Getting votes back (had no points last week, got points this week):
RPI got 18 points
Western Michigan and Ferris State got 8 points
St. Lawrence got 3 points
No more votes (had points last week, no points this week):
Harvard lost 22 points
Minnesota State lost 6 points
Ohio State lost 1 point
For schedules, the poll, and standings, check out uscho.com or hockeyeastonline.com
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