08-09 ECAC East Fan Poll

[WIrinkrat]

Post and discuss your preseason rankings :) This one is tough with rosters not all being published....but obviously preseason rankings are a total crapshoot anyways!

1. St. A's
2. M'ville
3. Holy Cross
4. Norwich
5. UMass-Boston
6. NEC
7. Southern Maine
8. Salve
9. St. Michaels
10. Nichols
11. Castleton
12. Plymouth
13. MIT

[futurestar]

Norwich has posted it's roster on http://collegehockeystats.net/0809/rosters/ecacw3e

They are rostering 29 players including 15 Freshmen. I believe that they can only dress 21 players?

Ambitious recruiting eh?

[futurestar]

1. St. A's
2. M'ville
3. Holy Cross
4. UMass-Boston
5. NEC
6. Southern Maine
7. Norwich
8. Salve
9. Castleton
10. St. Michaels
11. Nichols
12. Plymouth
13. MIT

In this league of the haves and have nots....
The top 3 are the top 3, 4 through 8 are really a tie. Actually the race for fourth place is sometimes more exciting than who will finish first!
I'd like to see if the new coach at Castleton can breath some life into that program. It will also be interesting to see who she can recruit for next year.
Nichols is an unknown at this point. Enthusiatic coach, extensive recruiting, may be the surprise of the league.
Plymouth State has a couple of great recruits this year. I don't know if they will be enough to bring them up from the bottom.
MIT always has a tough time.