UMaine Vs BU At The Fens

Maine hockey prepares for another Frozen Fenway appearance - Saturday night vs Boston University. Start time has been moved up to 5:45pm, that is 45 minutes earlier than scheduled. Event officials moved the time because of the Patriots playoff game start time of 8:15pm.

The Bears will play the game as the #22 team in the country, according to the latest USCHO poll. Maine is ranked 18th in the new PairWise Rankings from College Hockey News.

The Black Bears are 10-7-2 after losing at Quinnipiac over the weekend. BU is struggling at 7-9-2 and ranked 36th in the PairWise...

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll

January 06, 2014

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Minnesota	(42)	13- 2-3	989	1
2	St. Cloud State	( 8)	11- 2-3	922	3
3	Ferris State		15- 3-3	876	2
4	Union		12- 3-3	823	5
5	Boston College		13- 4-2	804	6
6	Providence		13- 3-4	763	4
7	Quinnipiac		15- 3-4	715	8
8	Michigan		10- 4-2	667	7
9	Massachusetts-Lowell		14- 5-1	637	9
10	Yale		7- 3-4	495	10
11	Clarkson		12- 6-2	467	11
12	Cornell		8- 4-3	387	15
13	Miami		9- 7-2	383	12
14	Wisconsin		11- 6-1	361	13
15	Notre Dame		10- 8-1	300	14
16	Northeastern		11- 6-3	254	17
17	Denver		10- 6-4	190	16
18	Vermont		10- 6-3	148	20
19	Lake Superior		11- 8-1	103	18
20	New Hampshire		12-10-1	71	NR
Others receiving votes: Minnesota State 36, Maine 27, Ohio State 24, North Dakota 22, Colgate 13, Nebraska-Omaha 11, Bentley 4, Air Force 3, Rensselaer 3, Bowling Green 1, Western Michigan 1.

College Hockey News:PairWise Rankings

Rk	Team	PCWs	W-L-T	Win %	Rk	RPI	Rk
1	Minnesota	58	13-2-3	.806	1	.6006	1
2	St. Cloud State	57	11-2-3	.781	3	.5963	2
3	Ferris State	56	15-3-3	.786	2	.5851	3
4	Providence	55	13-3-4	.750	5t	.5811	4
5	Boston College	54	13-4-2	.737	7	.5799	5
6	Quinnipiac	53	15-3-4	.773	4	.5720	6
7	Union	51	12-3-3	.750	5t	.5719	7
8	Mass.-Lowell	51	14-5-1	.725	8	.5640	8
9	Michigan	49	10-4-2	.688	9	.5599	9
10	Cornell	49	8-4-3	.633	13	.5493	10
11	Clarkson	48	12-6-2	.650	10	.5453	11
12	Wisconsin	47	11-6-1	.639	12	.5448	12
13	Vermont	45	10-6-3	.605	16	.5413	13
14	Northeastern	45	11-6-3	.625	14t	.5380	15
15	New Hampshire	44	12-10-1	.543	27	.5397	14
16	Notre Dame	43	10-8-1	.553	25	.5368	16
17	North Dakota	42	9-7-2	.556	23t	.5352	17
18	Maine	41	10-7-2	.579	21	.5319	18
19	Minnesota State	40	12-8-0	.600	17t	.5316	19
20	Yale	39	7-3-4	.643	11	.5302	20
21	Miami	37	9-7-2	.556	23t	.5292	21
22	Ohio State	37	10-6-0	.625	14t	.5279	22
23	Lake Superior	36	11-8-1	.575	22	.5200	24
24	Denver	34	10-6-4	.600	17t	.5248	23
25	Bowling Green	34	11-9-4	.542	28	.5173	25
26	Nebraska-Omaha	33	8-9-1	.472	37	.5092	28
27	Colgate	32	8-9-3	.475	34t	.5165	26
28	Minnesota-Duluth	32	7-8-1	.469	38	.5104	27
29	Brown	30	6-6-2	.500	31t	.5079	29
30	Rensselaer	30	8-8-4	.500	31t	.5063	30
31	St. Lawrence	28	8-9-2	.474	36	.5049	31
32	Western Michigan	28	9-8-3	.525	30	.5031	32
33	Alaska-Anchorage	26	9-9-2	.500	31t	.4984	33
34	Alaska-Fairbanks	25	8-9-3	.475	34t	.4957	35
35	Harvard	24	5-7-2	.429	41	.4923	36
36	Boston University	23	7-9-2	.444	40	.4970	34
37	Air Force	22	10-6-4	.600	17t	.4921	37
38	Northern Michigan	21	8-10-2	.450	39	.4880	38
39	Michigan Tech	20	7-11-6	.417	42t	.4863	39
40	Mercyhurst	19	11-9-2	.545	26	.4829	40

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