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Which "A" team will have the most surprising season (in a positive aspect) this year?

I'll throw UCONN out there. Seems like there is always quite a bit of high school talent out there in CT, so maybe some of these guys will help UCONN make a run this year.
As I do every year, I predict UNH will take the league.

I got to say URI. Seems like they had a lot of young guys last year and made a nice run in the end. I was suprised to see them so low in the Preseason Poll. I would have thought them to be up in the 4th or 5th spot.

CGAlax. I was just wondering where you saw the preseasoning rankings for the PCLL

"I got to say URI. Seems like they had a lot of young guys last year and made a nice run in the end. I was suprised to see them so low in the Preseason Poll. I would have thought them to be up in the 4th or 5th spot."

It would be interesting to see how everybody has the league lined up this year.

JJLax10 wrote:CGAlax. I was just wondering where you saw the preseasoning rankings for the PCLL

"I got to say URI. Seems like they had a lot of young guys last year and made a nice run in the end. I was suprised to see them so low in the Preseason Poll. I would have thought them to be up in the 4th or 5th spot."

It would be interesting to see how everybody has the league lined up this year.

http://www.uslia.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=270

I'm going with BU. Coach Remsen has had some time to settle in now, and I think they have some decent talent ready to step up as well. The lack of big opponents will hurt them in rankings, but I think they will make the playoffs and maybe advance a round.

cgalax wrote:I got to say URI. Seems like they had a lot of young guys last year and made a nice run in the end. I was suprised to see them so low in the Preseason Poll. I would have thought them to be up in the 4th or 5th spot.

I have to agree with you. They were a young team that seemed to really improve at the end of the season. I was surprised that a team that made it to the semi's and didn't really lose much to graduation was ranked so low.

I think that URI played hard last year and if they were a young team then they will be looking good this year. I also think that Stonehill could be a competitor this year. They gave Northeastern a tough game last year but I don't know who Stonehill graduated.

I also do not understand why people are voting for BC as a "surprising" team this year unless they are going to be surprisingly bad. They are in the top 3 teams for the PCLL every year so if they are there again this year it will not be a surprise.

JJLax10 wrote:I think that URI played hard last year and if they were a young team then they will be looking good this year. I also think that Stonehill could be a competitor this year. They gave Northeastern a tough game last year but I don't know who Stonehill graduated.

I don't know the exact number, but I believe Stonehill graduated like 2/3 of their team.

JJLax10 wrote:I think that URI played hard last year and if they were a young team then they will be looking good this year. I also think that Stonehill could be a competitor this year. They gave Northeastern a tough game last year but I don't know who Stonehill graduated.

I also do not understand why people are voting for BC as a "surprising" team this year unless they are going to be surprisingly bad. They are in the top 3 teams for the PCLL every year so if they are there again this year it will not be a surprise.

The biggest loss you're going to notice from Stonehill is the loss of Brooks, their goalie. I think he was first or second all league for at least 3 years. Great goalie that kept stonehill in a lot of games. I do believe they also lost a lot of their leadrership and have a very young team. No idea how good their new comers are though.

I guess that explains why they have no votes for the most surprising team then.

We lost 15 Seniors (2 1st team all league, 1 2nd team, 4 honorable mention) and we never have big numbers so it definitely hurt. We have a big (for Stonehill's standards) freshman class and promising group of committed guys so don't count us out just yet.

id say UNH2001 hit it dead on with UConn....