Fairfield Prep, the No. 1 team in the Register Top 10 poll to be released Wednesday, defeated No. 2 Hamden 5-2 at the TD Bank Sports Center on the campus of Quinnipiac University. This was the first high school boys' hockey game played at the state-of-the-art facility and a great deal for scholastic student-athletes.

Kudos to QU athletic director Jack McDonald and SCC commissioner Al Carbone for working to make this happen.

The rest of the Register Top 10 poll can be seen in Wednesday's paper, along with Dan Nowak's column on how the SCC went out of state over the holidays to make some pretty impressive statements about the level of hockey in the area this year.