Hockey tops USCHO poll
The hockey team has moved to #1, according to USCHO.
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/
Insert usual stuff about value of early-season polls here.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
Team looks great this year, I am fairly optimistic, that being said...nothing is won in October, it is won in the Frozen Four! As always...GO BLUE!
I hope to see us play more often, optimistic for the Big 10 hockey conference, mostly so I can see our boys come and beat the crap out of the Gophers...I live in MN.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
...and the basketball team is pre-season ranked 20th, despite our starting point guard sitting out the NBA season with the rest of his professional brethren (damnit!). It's cool that the hockey team rose to the top of the poll, but until we square off with some conference competition, I'm going to temper my enthusiasm.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
FUCK YOU STATE! Best news I've heard all weekend. Let's hope this continues. I want that CCHA and NCAA Championship so bad.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
would be nice to go out on top. With our goaltending, anything is possible this year. Stay healthy boys!
October 17th, 2011 at 2:28 PM ^
Agreed. It'd be nice to take the trophy with us to the Big Ten.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:23 PM ^
is there any way to get OSU Mich tickets for the January 15th game before November 4th? Regardless of that I'm still getting up @ 8:00 am on stand by to get those stubs.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:39 PM ^
This is more indicative of teams above us losing than us being awesome. I'm sort of amazed we're #1 what with all of the questions we have this year. I'll take it though
edit: is this the first time we've been ranked #1 since the '07-'08 dream season featuring porter and kolarik?
October 17th, 2011 at 3:13 PM ^
No idea on the ranking thing, but I am surprised as well. It's good to see us scoring goals because that was our biggest question mark. The freshmen look pretty good so far.
October 17th, 2011 at 3:09 PM ^
Conference play opens up friday at northern which means the real season has started.
GO BLUE!
October 17th, 2011 at 3:11 PM ^
I agree that this ranking is due to the fact UM is 4-0 and everyone else lost. This weekend should be interesting, 2 game at #17 Norther Michigan (3-1-0). They split with Wiscy and swept St. Cloud State. That's 4 games vs WCHA and UM was playing AHA teams... big difference. It's nice to be #1 though. It would have rather been #1 4 polls ago....
Go Blue!
October 17th, 2011 at 3:54 PM ^
Northern split with Wiscy. Wiscy just got swept in Houghton this past weekend (great wins, Mel Pearson!). What does this info mean? Absolutely nothing, except that a sweep in Marquette would really get this season off to a hot start.
October 17th, 2011 at 4:26 PM ^
4-0, but not against the greatest competition. Nonetheless, after the Sparty debacle on Saturday, it's nice to see a great start to the year and some love from the polls. Hopefully Blue can start the CCHA schedule with some Ws against Northern this weekend and justify the ranking!
October 17th, 2011 at 4:30 PM ^
I think Michigan will get the sweep this weekend.
October 17th, 2011 at 4:31 PM ^
The best part is MSU got swept by LSSU. They don't look any better from last year
October 17th, 2011 at 6:50 PM ^
Their coach is former CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos, who has absolutely no track record as a head coach short of leading his daughter's hockey team to the state championship game. If you happen to have friends that are MSU hockey fans, bringing up their coach is sure to rile them up. Well worth bringing up.
October 17th, 2011 at 7:37 PM ^
we now numerical ammo in that after their losses to LSSU, (it's bad enough they got swept by LSSU!) they are now last in the CCHA in both scoring offense and scoring defense. This will be fun.
October 17th, 2011 at 8:08 PM ^
Michigan's new hockey arch rival is notre dame due to state's instability.
October 17th, 2011 at 8:16 PM ^
Even with the talent level in east lansing a great hockey coach could have given them an outside shot at the tournament. Instead they have a realistic chance of challenging bowling green for last in the CCHA.