DU Drops From #1 to #2 After 7-1 VictoryThe University of Denver's "narrow" 7-1 win over Lakehead University caused them drop from #1 to #2 in the latest USCHO.com/CSTV Poll. Obviously the pollsters thought Coach Gwozdecky's scheduling of a team from his hometown (Thunder Bay, Ontario) was "suspicious" and that DU didn't have the "killer instinct" to crush them 25-0.
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Lakehead then promptly went out and tied #6 Colorado College 5-5 and Air Force 2-2. Colorado College, which has not won a National Championship in Men's Ice Hockey since 1957, was playing its third game in three nights and without seven regular players.
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DU needs to learn a few things about the importance of running up the score in meaningless exhibition games or we will never see #1 again (until the last poll of the season). Minnesota on the otherhand "handily" defeated the University of Alberta 4-3.
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This week's USCHO.com Poll
1. Minnesota (15) 0-0-0 765
2. Denver (23) 0-0-0 758
3. Cornell 0-0-0 668
4. Boston College ( 1) 0-0-0 662
5. Ohio State ( 1) 0-0-0 639
6. Colorado College 2-0-0 624
7. Michigan 2-0-0 558
8. New Hampshire 0-0-0 509
9. North Dakota 1-1-0 455
10. Michigan State 2-0-0 373
11. Wisconsin 1-1-0 359
12. Maine 1-1-0 326
13. Northern Michigan 0-0-0 325
14. Boston University 0-0-0 315
15. Dartmouth 0-0-0 223
16. Colgate 1-0-0 210
17. Harvard 0-0-0 199
18. Mass.-Lowell 1-1-0 104
19. Vermont 0-0-0 81
20. Bemidji State 2-0-0 74
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