Women’s Hockey Picked Third in ECAC Hockey Preseason Poll

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women’s hockey team has been picked to finish third in the 2026-27 ECAC Hockey preseason poll, it was announced Wednesday afternoon following a vote from the league’s head coaches. Quinnipiac, the reigning ECAC Hockey champion, was tabbed as the favorite, collecting six first-place votes and 112 total points. Princeton, a co-regular-season champion a season ago, followed in second with three first-place votes and 103 points. Cornell rounded out the top three with 98 points and one first-place vote, edging out fourth-place Clarkson (97 points, one first-place vote) by a single point. Yale (84) — which…