{"id":30663,"date":"2009-10-08T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2009\/10\/08\/200910-ecac-hockey-season-preview\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T23:10:59","slug":"200910-ecac-hockey-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2009\/10\/08\/200910-ecac-hockey-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2009-10 ECAC Hockey Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most leagues have one or two clear-cut frontrunners and some well-defined strata before anyone even dons a sweater. <\/p>\n
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Yale’s Sean Backman is back after a 20-goal campaign (photo: Melissa Wade).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Not in ECAC Hockey.<\/p>\n
Four teams seem to have legitimate claims to the title of Fall Favorite, but only one squad can be tagged as conspicuously having everything to prove. <\/p>\n
As for everyone else, any order you could design would have its virtues and its flaws. So here’s merely one approach: Game on!<\/p>\n
Below are individual previews for each team, listed in reverse order of predicted finish. Each individual preview can be accessed by clicking on a given school’s name.<\/i><\/p>\n