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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
I'm not all that familiar with college hockey. What's the best conference (?) in Division I? Is it Hockey East?
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I think this helps:
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/icehock...ens_hockey_rpi
The NCAA's top level has 59 teams in 5 conferences. Hockey East is one of them. Rest are listed in wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_ice_hockey), sorry couldn't find a better source. But I didn't know this was happening "The 2013-14 season will be the first played under a significant
realignment of conferences".
To ask whether one conference is better than the other is much like asking which division is better in the NHL, sometime it is clear, sometimes not, and it varies year-to-year. There are perennial powerhouse teams (Boston College recently, but also Minnesota, Wisconsin, Denver, North Dakota, Michigan), other Hockey East teams like UNH and BU are also often in the mix.
As a personal note, I was at UMaine doing grad studies for 3 finals, when they won in 1999 and lost in 2002 and 2004... exciting times. They are not so good this year.