RIT Seats are Moving Fast

Clarkson opens their 2008-2009 campaign on the road at RIT and Niagara. As the Knights look to build upon last season's successes, these early games will prove to be a good barometer of where the team stands after losing a very talented senior class. To help the Knights along the Clarkson Alumni Association has been putting two events together to get a solid Green and Gold crowd at RIT's Ritter Arena and at Niagara's Dwyer Arena. As of right now the Rochester Chapter has sold 108 tickets to the Friday game. If anyone from the Buffalo chapter reads this and wants to post a comment as to how ticket sales are going, feel free. I believe the band is making the hike down from Potsdam as well and should provide a very good college atmosphere both nights. If you would like tickets to either event log on to the Clarkson Alumni Page and sign up.

ECAC Coaches and Media Polls

The pre-season polls ECAC were released today, and there seems to be a concensus on who the top four teams and bottom two teams in the league will be. I'm still not sold on a Princeton repeat, but the trend of these polls seems to place alot of weight on the defending champion.

Coaches Poll
1. PRINCETON (9) 118
2. HARVARD (2) 103
3. CORNELL (1) 100
4. CLARKSON 88
5. UNION 80
6. QUINNIPIAC 72
7. YALE 67
8. ST. LAWRENCE 48
9. COLGATE 43
10. RENSSELAER 38
11. DARTMOUTH 33
12. BROWN 11

Media Poll
1. PRINCETON (15) 278
2. HARVARD (4) 247
3. CORNELL (2) 244
4. CLARKSON (2) 234
5. QUINNIPIAC 178
6. UNION 160
7. YALE 156
8. ST. LAWRENCE 129
9. RENSSELAER 107
10. COLGATE 99
11. DARTMOUTH 81
12. BROWN 34

Bold Predictions

Hello hockey fans! CHF is back on the air after a summer that just seemed to melt away. In between innings of Ron rooting for the Red Sox and Brett pulling for the Cubs, we looked at the calendar and realized it's just a month from the start of hockey season, and two months from the start of ECAC play.

In the past we have built up, somewhat slowly, our predictions for the league standings. Sometimes not getting them done before the season started. So this year I will paint the league with one broad stroke then go into detailed capsules of each team and why I made the picks the way I did.

So after little thought and deliberation here is our prediction for the ECAC standings:

1. Harvard
2. Cornell
3. Princeton
4. Clarkson
5. Union
6. SLU
7. RPI
8. Yale
9. Quinnipiac
10. Colgate
11. Dartmouth
12. Brown