MIAA releases first statewide boys and girls high school hockey power rankings of season

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association revealed its first statewide boys and girls high school hockey tournament power rankings of the season on Friday. The top 32 teams in each division along with all other squads that finish with a .500 or better record qualify for the postseason.

This will be the winter season's first foray into the statewide tournament that debuted in the Fall of 2021. There are two ways for teams to qualify.

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The rankings reflect records of teams that were properly entered as of Thursday morning. Here are how the power rankings breakdown:

Division 1 Boys

1. St. John's Prep

2. Catholic Memorial

3. Arlington

4. Braintree

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5. Austin Prep

6. Pope Francis

7. Xaverian

8. BC High

9. Hingham

10. Belmont

11. Malden Catholic

12. Falmouth

13. Central Catholic

14. Wellesley

15. Waltham

16. Lincoln-Sudbury

17. Marshfield

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18. Arlington

19. Winchester

20. Woburn

21. St. Mary's (Lynn)

22. Franklin

23. Reading

24. Chelmsford

25. Milton

26. Andover

27. Archbishop Williams

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28. Weymouth

29. Natick

30. Bishop Feehan

31. Bishop Fenwick

32. Westford Academy

Locals currently outside of the tournament

Bridgewater-Raynham (37).

Division 2 Boys

1. Tewksbury

2. Masconomet

3. Walpole

4. Gloucester

5. Canton

6. Newton South

7. Norwood

8. Duxbury

9. Silver Lake

10. Wakefield

11. Mansfield

12. Newburyport

13. Plymouth North

14. Concord-Carlisle

15. Dartmouth

16. Quincy

17. Auburn

18. Algonquin

19. Longmeadow

20. Marblehead

21. Somerset Berkley

22. Beverly

23. Boston Latin School

24. Whitman-Hanson

25. North Attleboro

26. Wilmington

27. Westboro

28. Westwood

29. Lowell

30. Melrose

31. Hopkinton

32. Minnechuag

Locals currently outside of the tournament

Plymouth South (37), Oliver Ames (38).

Division 3 Boys

1. Marlboro

2. Scituate

3. Hanover

4. Hopedale

5. Medway

6. Nashoba

7. Danvers

8. North Reading

9. Seekonk

10. Lynnfield

11. Nauset

12. West Springfield

13. Cambridge

14. Bishop Stang

15. Essex Tech

16. North Middlesex

17. Medfield

18. Dracut

19. Bedford

20. Methuen

21. Triton

22. Lowell Catholic

23. Pembroke

24. Southeastern/Bristol-Plymouth

25. Middleboro

26. Foxboro

27. Groton-Dunstable

28. Ludlow

29. North Quincy

30. Northbridge

31. Old Rochester

32. Taunton

Locals currently outside of the tournament

Stoughton/Brockton (34), Cardinal Spellman (45).

Division 4 Boys

1. Stoneham

2. Sandwich

3. Norwell

4. Winthrop

5. Watertown

6. Fitchburg

7. Ashland

8. Grafton

9. Burncoat

10. Nantucket

11. Martha's Vineyard

12. Chicopee Comp.

13. Shawsheen Valley Tech.

14. Dedham

15. Dover-Sherborn

16. Boston Latin Academy

17. Hamilton-Wenham

18. Dennis-Yarmouth

19. Amesbury

20. Rockland

21. Hull/Cohasset

22. Littleton

23. Oakmont

24. Assabet Valley

25. Gardner

26. Abington

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27. Rockport

28. Monomoy

29. Hudson

30. Saugus

31. Chicopee

32. Belchertown

Locals outside top 32 that would qualify with above .500 record

South Shore Voke (33).

Locals currently outside of the tournament

East Bridgewater/West Bridgewater (36), Blue Hills (43).

Division 1 Girls

1. Austin Prep

2. Arlington

3. St. Mary's (Lynn)

4. Acton-Boxboro

5. Notre Dame Academy

6. Shrewsbury

7. Nauset

8. Hingham

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9. Bishop Feehan

10. Bishop Stang

11. Peabody

12. Haverhill

13. Bishop Fenwick

14. Pope Francis

15. Reading

16. Billerica

17. Whitman-Hanson/Silver Lake

18. Methuen/Tewksbury

19. Winthrop

20. Longmeadow

21. Wayland

22. Mansfield/Foxboro/Oliver Ames

23. Quincy/North Quincy

24. Plymouth South/Plymouth North

25. Auburn

26. Newburyport

27. Beverly

28. Stoneham

29. Newton North

30. Arlington Catholic

31. Marblehead

32. Ursuline

Locals currently outside of the tournament

East Bridgewater/West Bridgewater (34), Stoughton (39).

Division 2 Girls

1. Duxbury

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2. Sandwich

3. Norwood

4. Winchester

5. King Philip

6. Braintree

7. Needham

8. Andover

9. Algonquin

10. Archbishop Williams

11. Pembroke

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12. Woburn

13. Westwood

14. Falmouth

15. Matignon

16. Weymouth

17. Natick

18. Canton

19. Malden Catholic

20. Framingham

21. Watertown

22. Medway

23. Barnstable

24. Belmont

25. Burlington

26. Lexington

27. Wellesley

28. Milton

29. Franklin

30. Dennis-Yarmouth

31. Medfield

32. Boston Latin School

Locals outside top 32 that would qualify with above .500 record

Hanover (35).

Locals currently outside of the tournament

Norwell (36), Scituate (45).

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