Word: ecacs
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While the polls are remarkably similar to last season's standings (with the notable exception of Harvard), five months of hockey remain before the ECAC championship is decided at Brown's Meehan Auditorium on March 21. Here is how the ECAC teams shape up before the season, listed in the order in which the league's coaches picked them to finish in the Preseason Coaches' Poll...
...coaches expect New Hampshire (UNH) to repeat its regular-season dominance. Last season went 31-5-3 in the regular season before squeaking by Harvard with a 2-1 overtime victory in the ECAC quarterfinals en route to winning the AWCHA national championship...
...Wildcats were not unbeatable last year. Brown upset UNH, 4-3, in the ECAC championship game before losing to the Wildcats in the national championship a week later. And UNH is not the same team it was last year...
...front line also looks promising for the Wildcats. Senior forward Melisa Heitzman (27 g, 29 a), an All-ECAC second-team choice who finished third in the league in scoring, will be joined by junior Samantha Holmes (23 g, 23 a) and sophomore Michelle Thornton (18 g, 26 a), who finished sixth and seventh in scoring, respectively...
...lose two key players but have a strong nucleus returning to defend the national title. The Wildcats have won either the ECAC regular season or tournament championship in three of the last five years...