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OTTAWA (CIS) - The McGill men's hockey team is ranked second in the first CIS men's hockey poll of the 2011-12 season.

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UNB, the reigning national champs, opens the campaign atop the rankings for the third time in five years, each time following a University Cup triumph (2011, 2009, 2007). The V-Reds captured the fourth CIS title in program history last March in Fredericton thanks to a 4-0 gold-medal win over the McGill Redmen, and hope for a repeat performance in six months when they once again host the University Cup tournament, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Twelfth-year head coach Gardiner MacDougall and his troops are off to a solid start again this fall. After racking up five wins, two losses and a tie in pre-season action, including a perfect 4-0 mark versus CIS opponents, the V-Reds opened AUS conference play this past weekend with a pair of 3-1 home victories over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men and the Saint Mary's Huskies.

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UNB earned 15 of 17 first-place votes and 165 points from the media panel this week, with No. 2 McGill (141 points) and the No. 3 Manitoba Bisons (131) each receiving one of the remaining first-place nods.

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Rounding out the first Top 10 of the campaign are the No. 4 Acadia Axemen (99 points), No. 5 Saskatchewan Huskies (89), No. 6 Western Ontario Mustangs (83), No. 7 StFX (70), No. 8 Alberta Golden Bears (53), No. 9 Nipissing Lakers (43) and No. 10 Waterloo Warriors (22).

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McGill begins in second place for the second straight season. The two-time defending OUA champion Redmen, who made their first-ever appearance in the CIS final last spring, are off to a 4-0 start in conference play, including a two-game sweep of perennial powerhouse Lakehead in Thunder Bay and a pair of home wins over Windsor.

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Manitoba opens at No. 3 for the second time in three years, a position that matches the highest ranking in team history. The Bisons have been impressive so far in the regular season with a pair of two-game road sweeps against Calgary and Alberta, the 2010-11 Canada West finalist and champion, respectively.

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Also of note in the opening poll is the lowest ranking for Alberta since the Golden Bears were eighth on Oct. 28, 1996 (second poll of 1996-97). The Bears (2-1-1), who have won 10 of the last 11 Canada West titles, had not been ranked lower than fourth in the country in the last 14 seasons (1997-98 to 2010-11).

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NOTES: UNB was ranked No. 1 in the last 11 national polls of 2010-11 and has topped 43 of the last 65 polls (.662) since 2006-07...

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CIS MEN'S HOCKEY TOP 10 (#1)

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Voting is based on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis, with a 1st place vote worth 10 points. The CIS Men's Ice Hockey Top Ten Committee is made up of media members from across Canada.

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(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

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1. UNB (2-0-0) / 165 pts (15) / (-)
2. McGill (4-0-0) / 141 (1) / (-)
3. Manitoba (4-0-0) / 131 (1) / (-)
4. Acadia (2-0-0) / 99 / (-)
5. Saskatchewan (3-0-0) / 89 / (-)
6. Western Ontario (3-0-1) / 83 / (-)
7. StFX (1-1-0) / 70 / (-)
8. Alberta (2-1-1) / 53 / (-)
9. Nipissing (4-1-0) / 43 / (-)
10. Waterloo (3-1-0) / 22 / (-)

Other teams receiving votes: UPEI (12), Queen's (9), UBC (9), UQTR (7), Brock (1), Lakehead (1).

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About Canadian Interuniversity Sport

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Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. Fifty-two universities, 10,000 student-athletes and 550 coaches vie for 21 national championships in 12 different sports. CIS also provides high performance international opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer Universiades, as well as numerous world university championships. For further information, visit .

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-CIS-

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For more information:

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Michel B茅langer

Manager, Communications & Media Relations

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Off: (613) 562-5670 ext. 25

Cell: (613) 447-6334

belanger [at] universitysport.ca

www.cis-sic.ca

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