With the season about a month away I give my preseason top 5. There is no longer a north-south breakdown so each of the 13 teams will play each other twice.

I see Moorestown, Cinnaminson, Cherokee, Washington Township, and Clearview as the top 5.

Moorestown lost 7 seniors from last year, but return Craig Rushmore (1.71 GAA), Michael Eni 22pts, Tyler Woyshner 28pts, Alex Hashmi 40pts, and Alex Nicoli 29pts.

Cinnaminson lost 1 senior from last year. They return 269 penalty minutes to a 14-8 team from last year. Eric McDowell 37pts and Justin Nugent 27 point should lead the team again.

Cherokee last years runner up, lost 11 seniors, but return Pat Mohnacs 32 pts, jason Speiker 21 pts, and Anthony Santisi 22 pts.

Township lost 6 seniors who accounted for 92 of the teams 172 regular season goals to a team that went 19-2-1 and gave up just 46 goals last season. They return Mike Stover in goal 2.17GAA, and Eddie Sarin 25 g, 25 A. 50 pts, and Louie DeAngelo 24 goals, 21 a, 45 pts.

Clearview lost 7 seniors, including Hoffman in goal. They return Eddie Moore 14 g, 19pts, and Eric Heritage 20g-15a 25 pts but 67 penalty minutes. Clearview could make some noise on the scoreboard if they aren't making it in the penalty box.

What is your top 5 picks for the upcoming season?

moorestown, cinnaminson, cherokee, washington township are the only contenders....all the other teams are in a league among their own

moorestown is going to be very tough again as 4 accomplished varsity players (eni, woyshner, hasmi, nicoli) all return as well as solid goal tending, and have a good young core move up from the championship jv team, but will struggle on defense

cinnaminson was a solid team last year as they are deep in solid well rounded players, mcdowell and nugent have to step it up , and team pim go down

cherokee will also be a solid team they have a good first couple lines and great goaltending but slump off at the end, look for mohnacs to lead them in points

washington township is not very deep but have the best goalie, forward, and defenseman in the league, and are always contenders

Bart, while I agree that Cinnaminson and Township appear to be 2 of the top teams, I would not count Moorestown out just yet, I haven't seen Holy Cross just yet, I know they have 8 seniors, it does appear to be a rebuilding year for some teams as graduation has definitely hurt Shawnee and Cherokee, normally top teams. I think Cherokee will be there at the end along with Moorestown and the other top two teams. On the other hand I think we are in for a lot of one-sided games as the decision to lump all the teams in one division will prove to be a wrong one. Hopefully that's not the case.