About where I expected Yale and Quinnipiac to be rated. For the record, one of those first-place votes for Yale is mine. Quinnipiac, UMass-Lowell, Miami and St. Cloud State rounded out my top five.

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
Minneapolis, Minn./September 30, 2013

Team             (First Place)   Record   Pts  
 1 Massachusetts-Lowell      (19)    0- 0-0   844    
 2 Miami                     (14)    0- 0-0   837    
 3 Wisconsin                 ( 2)    0- 0-0   740    
 4 Boston College                    0- 0-0   728    
 5 Minnesota                 ( 1)    0- 0-0   660    
 6 Yale                      ( 8)    0- 0-0   644    
 7 North Dakota                      0- 0-0   636    
 8 Notre Dame                        0- 0-0   575    
 9 St. Cloud State                   0- 0-0   513    
10 Quinnipiac                ( 1)    0- 0-0   419    
11 Michigan                          0- 0-0   417    
11 Minnesota State                   0- 0-0   417    
13 New Hampshire                     0- 0-0   354    
14 Providence                        0- 0-0   271    
15 Rensselaer                        0- 0-0   266    
16 Union                             0- 0-0   258    
17 Denver                            0- 0-0   241    
18 Western Michigan                  0- 0-0   117    
19 Boston University                 0- 0-0   113    
20 Niagara                           0- 0-0    94    

Others receiving votes: Cornell 80, Ferris State 67, Harvard
18, Minnesota-Duluth 18, Nebraska-Omaha 16, Air Force 14,
Michigan Tech 14, Canisius 12, Colorado College 11, Ohio
State 11, Alaska 10, Mercyhurst 10, Michigan State 6, RIT 5,
Bowling Green 4, Brown 4, Dartmouth 2, Merrimack 2, Robert
Morris 2.

Yale's Kenny Agostino turned down an opportunity to begin his professional career so he could return to Yale, get his degree and perhaps lead the Bulldogs to a second straight national championship. At ECAC Media Day in Lake Placid, N.Y., he was a consensus all-league pick at forward.

Here are the all-league teams:

Coaches
F: Kenny Agostino, Yale
F: Andrew Calof, Princeton
F: Greg Carey, St. Lawrence
D: Shayne Gostisbehere, Union
D: Joakim Ryan, Cornell
G: Jason Kasdorf, RPI

Media
F: Agostino, Yale
F: Carey, St. Lawrence
F: Matt Lorito, Brown
D: Gostisbehere, Union
D: Mat Bodie, Union
G: Kasdorf, RPI

Media Day in Lake Placid, N.Y. means college hockey season is around the corner. Here are the results of the annual preseason polls. Lots of diversity here. The 12 coaches in the league voted six different teams as No. 1. Yale may be the defending national champ, but came in well behind RPI in the media poll.

2013-14 ECAC Hockey Coaches Preseason Poll

2013-14 ECAC Hockey Media Preseason Poll

1. Yale (4)

1. Rensselaer (18)

2. Rensselaer (2)

2. Yale (5)

T3. Quinnipiac (2)

3. Quinnipiac (6)

Union (2)

4. Union (3)

5. Cornell (1)

5. Cornell (1)

6. Harvard

Dartmouth

7. Dartmouth (1)

7. St. Lawrence

8. Brown

8. Brown

9. Colgate

9. Colgate

10.St. Lawrence

10. Harvard

11. Princeton

11. Princeton

12. Clarkson

12. Clarkson