{"id":442772,"date":"2026-02-03T06:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/442772\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:16:23","slug":"the-top-10-entering-the-final-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/442772\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 10 entering the final month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"775\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/St.-Sebastians-celly-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>From left: Brendan Matthews, Jack Queally and Cade Noonan have St. Sebastian&#8217;s in the top 10. (Courtesy photo) <\/p>\n<p>In my New England boys prep hockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeyjournal.com\/boys-prep-midseason-report-one-of-the-wildest-years-in-recent-memory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">midseason report<\/a> last week, I wrote that it was one of the wildest years in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine what&#8217;s in store for the final month.<\/p>\n<p>The parity is apparent. Just over the last few days, the teams ranked Nos. 2-4 lost games. The 7-10 spots are a revolving door of teams every week. My No. 1 is different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushr.com\/neprep\/jspr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JSPR<\/a>&#8216;s No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>As we enter February, St. Sebastian&#8217;s is the story.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into the latest rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From left: Brendan Matthews, Jack Queally and Cade Noonan have St. Sebastian&#8217;s in the top 10. (Courtesy photo)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[28392,29156,2060,46242,25566,5,23877,2064,2065,11957,28393,19307],"class_list":{"0":"post-442772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-avon-old-farms-hockey","9":"tag-belmont-hill-hockey","10":"tag-boys-prep-hockey","11":"tag-boys-prep-hockey-rankings","12":"tag-dexter-southfield-hockey","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-kimball-union-hockey","15":"tag-nepsac-hockey","16":"tag-new-england-prep-hockey","17":"tag-salisbury-hockey","18":"tag-st-marks-hockey","19":"tag-st-sebastians-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116005240592757381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}