PUCK Rankings for December 11th, 2006
Posted by: ronAhh the sweet smell of stability. This week it looks like things went pretty smoothly with just a flip of positions happening in most spots with the exception of North Dakota which plummeted six spots to #16 in this week’s PUCK Rankings. UMass gets the boot and Michigan State joins the party this week. In comparison to the unveling of this week’s KRACH, we’re actually feeling a bit more confident in our rankings at this point in timethan CHN’s officially endorsed system (if you don’t know what KRACH is educate yourself NOW!)
I didn’t say that to enrage Wodon.. I just said it because I believe the KRACH to be best at predicting the teams who should go to the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season, while the PUCK Rankings highlight the best teams right NOW. Until more games are played I leerily look at things like KRACH and Pairwise, despite the fact that at this point in the season they’re still more legitimate than the final BCS results this year. I suspect by the end of the year both will look very similar.
CHN Blog “PUCK” Rankings
December 11th, 2006
| Rank | Team | Record | Last Week |
| 1 | Minnesota | 15-1-3 | 1 |
| 2 | New Hampshire | 13-2-1 | 2 |
| 3 | Notre Dame | 14-3-1 | 4 |
| 4 | Maine | 10-3-1 | 3 |
| 5 | Miami | 14-5-1 | 5 |
| 6 | St. Cloud State | 10-3-3 | 6 |
| 7 | Boston College | 9-5-1 | 7 |
| 8 | Colorado College | 11-6-1 | 9 |
| 9 | Michigan | 12-7-0 | 8 |
| 10 | Vermont | 9-5-1 | 11 |
| 11 | Denver | 10-6-2 | 15 |
| 12 | Boston University | 6-3-5 | 12 |
| 13 | Cornell | 7-3-1 | 13 |
| 14 | Clarkson | 10-5-1 | 16 |
| 15 | Michigan State | 9-7-1 | NR |
| 16 | North Dakota | 7-8-1 | 10 |
Bumped: University of Massachusetts-Amherst
