The best College Hockey coverage is at CollegeHockeyNews.com http://www.collegehockeynews.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:05:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/images/design/chn2006-text-180px.gif http://www.collegehockeynews.com College Hockey News http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/05_ecacplayoff.php A look at the first-round Best-of-3 playoff series.  The winners will move to Best-of-3 quarterfinal series next weekend. (12) CLARKSON at (5) ST. LAWRENCE [[St. Lawrence]] won just one of its final eight games of the regular season, falling out of contention for a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament. A further punishment? Having to play a dangerous No. 12 seed in [[Clarkson]], the Saints' ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/03_rensselaer.php It's been 15 years since Rensselaer last won an ECAC tournament championship -- Dan Fridgen's first season as head coach. It's also the last time it made the NCAAs. And it's been 25 years since RPI won a national championship. In the mean time, it's been four years since fresh-faced Seth Appert left his post as assistant coach at Denver, where he helped the Pioneers win two national ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/02/18_engineers.php It's not a new look for the RPI Engineers, but definitely one they haven't seen in Troy in quite some time. Sure, they started the season at a rather mediocre 10-10-1 overall, and 3-4-2 in what's proving to be a deep ECAC. Coming into the season, they were expected to finish anywhere from 8th to 10th, depending on which poll you put more stock in, and while they were on pace to do slightly ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/02/16_handicapping.php In the 1990s, college hockey had gained a lot of stature in the big picture, but was still a ways off from the first-round NHL draft-pick hotbed that the 2000s became. Three Hobey winners from the '90s became big-time NHL players -- Paul Kariya ('93, Maine), Brendan Morrison ('97, Michigan) and Chris Drury ('98, Boston University). In the 2000s, there will be at least five, led by ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100