The ECAC coaches and media differ in their assessment of how the league will stack up during the 2013-14 season.
Rensselaer was picked to win the regular-season title in the 15th annual ECAC Hockey Media Association’s 2013-14 preseason poll, receiving 18 of 33 first-place votes and 367 overall points in the poll conducted by Schenectady Daily Gazette college hockey writer Ken Schott.
It’s the first time the Engineers have been picked first in the media poll. Their previous highest finish was second in the very first media poll back in 1999-2000.
On the coaches’ side of the poll, for the first time in league history, six schools received at least one first-place vote as defending national champion Yale, Rensselaer, Quinnipiac, Union, Cornell and Dartmouth each earned a top vote.
Yale took the No. 1 spot with four first-place votes and 103 total points.
Both the media and coaches also selected an all-conference preseason team as well.
2013 ECAC PRESEASON MEDIA POLL
| School (First-Place Votes) | Total Points |
|---|---|
| 1. Rensselaer (18) | 367 |
| 2. Yale (5) | 324 |
| 3. Quinnipiac (6) | 292 |
| 4. Union (3) | 287 |
| 5 (tie). Cornell (1) | 238 |
| 5 (tie). Dartmouth | 238 |
| 7. St. Lawrence | 212 |
| 8. Brown | 188 |
| 9. Colgate | 125 |
| 10. Harvard | 108 |
| 11. Princeton | 102 |
| 12. Clarkson | 83 |
2013 ECAC PRESEASON MEDIA ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
| Player | Position | Class | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Carey | F | Sr. | St. Lawrence |
| Kenny Agostino | F | Sr. | Yale |
| Matt Lorito | F | Jr. | Brown |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | D | Jr. | Union |
| Mat Bodie | D | Sr. | Union |
| Jason Kasdorf | G | So. | Rensselaer |
2013 ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
| School (First-Place Votes) | Total Points |
|---|---|
| 1. Yale (4) | 103 |
| 2. Rensselaer (2) | 102 |
| 3 (tie). Quinnipiac (2) | 93 |
| 3 (tie). Union (2) | 93 |
| 5. Cornell (1) | 89 |
| 6. Harvard | 67 |
| 7. Dartmouth (1) | 64 |
| 8. Brown | 46 |
| 9. Colgate | 44 |
| 10. St. Lawrence | 43 |
| 11. Princeton | 26 |
| 12. Clarkson | 22 |
2013 ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
| Player | Position | Class | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenny Agostino | F | Sr. | Yale |
| Greg Carey | F | Sr. | St. Lawrence |
| Andrew Calof | F | Sr. | Princeton |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | D | Jr. | Union |
| Joakim Ryan | D | So. | Cornell |
| Jason Kasdorf | G | So. | Rensselaer |
