Power Rankings and Weekend Takeaways: Eagles still leading the way (#480)

Issue #480 also includes: More weekend thoughts, a full notebook, top performers, and more

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Today's issue (#480) leads off with this week's power rankings. My power rankings are a bit different than everyone else's. I'm not ranking teams 1-20 or even 1-16. I'm giving a snapshot of what I believe the NCAA Tournament will look like as of this week.

This feature will disappear sometime in December once the Pairwise carries more weight. At that point, I'll replace the power rankings with my weekly bracketology posts because the Pairwise will then act as the power rankings.

This issue also includes:

• More weekend thoughts, including certain things to watch for with early-season performance

• Top performers from the weekend. Who were the best scorers? Best goalies? Best faceoff players from the weekend? Who has the longest active scoring and winning streaks?

• Is Minnesota State the best .500 team in the country?

• Two Merrimack goalies did something that hasn't been done in at least 22 years (2002 is as far back as game-by-game data goes).

• More CHL news in our notebook, including a Cornell commit playing in the QMJHL

• The Holy Cross-Quinnipiac game scheduled for the DCU has been moved due to ice issues.

• Miami (FL)'s odds of winning the national title (no, I'm not kidding).

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