Connecticut Polls

Playoff season is at last upon us. Teams in Hockey Night in Boston’s Connecticut Division III top 10 are winding up their regular seasons, getting through those last makeup games and, in some cases, going on to conference tournaments. That includes No. 1 New Fairfield/Immaculate, ...

Though a handful of teams have separated themselves from the pack most of the season in Division II, there’s still that anything-goes quality to the division, like Branford’s late pickoff of some teams, like Amity’s improvement late in the year to knock off a playoff ...

With a week left before the CIAC playoffs, there may not be a team that exemplifies this season more than Notre Dame-Fairfield. A team that can look very good at times, it finally has a streak of more than two games in either direction… and ...

The end game is getting closer, the conference and state playoffs, maybe a rematch or two of some interesting regular-season games and what could be a fun week at Yale in mid-March. But we’re grinding our way through mid-February first, and the top teams in ...

Each of the top four teams in Hockey Night in Boston’s Connecticut Division II top 10 had a big win or two this week, though No. 3 Conard may’ve had the biggest. The Chieftains and Shea Henderson shut out No. 4 North Branford 2-0, continuing ...

This year, man. Thank goodness we’re getting down to playoff time – there will be conference playoff hockey Saturday – because the HNIB News Connecticut Division I Top 10 is getting perilously close to “toss 16 names in the air and grab the first 10” territory. ...

The big showdown went to No. 1 New Fairfield/Immaculate, which vaults over  No. 2 Staples/Weston/Shelton to the top of this week’s HNIB News Connecticut Division III rankings. The Rebel Mustangs won the interleague matchup 5-2 and followed it up with a couple of wins over Tri-Town, ...

What do you believe? Do you put your faith in the big wins, the unexpected victories? Do you lean to the losses that similarly leave you scratching your head? Do you fall in between? Wait for more evidence? Mumble “they’re kids”? Steal the joke from ...

So often this year, it feels like, we’ve pieced together Hockey Night in Boston’s Connecticut Division I rankings for Monday, only to see a wild score come in Monday night and undercut the whole thing. Thank the weather gods: No such thing happened Monday night ...