NCHC Invades Pre-Season Top Ten

The USCHO pre-season hockey poll released today places the Denver Pioneers in fifth position. Three other NCHC teams made the list to include Minnesota - Duluth, North Dakota, & Nebraska-Omaha. In a surprising twist, North Dakota (#4) slipped by the Pioneers who were favored to finish second in the conference by the writer's NCHC conference poll.

1.Boston College
2.Minnesota-Duluth
3.Boston University
4.North Dakota
5.Denver
6.Minnesota State
7.Providence
8.Harvard
9.Minnesota
10.Nebraska-Omaha

While casual college hockey fans were awaiting the USCHO poll, the collegiate hockey world will be eagerly awaiting the LetsGoDU Super Polltm . This poll, utilizing a sophisticated predictive scoring methodology, is going to be released tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. MST.

Link to USCHO:
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/2015-2016/poll,0928/september-28,-2015/

3 comments:

vizoroo said...

May we assume that strong DU bias is part of the scoring methodology? And that cc could finish no higher than 57?

5BWest said...

The program is trade-marked by DG. But, it looks like you helped him write the program.

Anonymous said...

DU gets games against a lot of the top teams this year, which helps the SOS and PWR come tourney time.

For me, the big DU question marks are:

1) Can DU get scoring from lines #2 and #3? We can't be a one line team.

2) With Plant, Butcher and Zajac, defense will be mobile and a bit small. Who will step up into the Didier hitter role? Hammond?

3) Q-Shore is the biggest question mark to me. He has to be better as a senior.