Played their first season last year with ALL freshmen. Second season
has most of those players back as well as about 8 new freshmen. They
have the following opponents this year from Div.1 leagues.
   RPI
   Cornell
   winner/loser of Colgate/TBA tourney game.
   Colgate
   winner/loser of Clarkson/Minn-Duluth tourney game.
   Merrimack
   Boston University
as well as
   Mankato State (4 games)
   Air Force (4 games)
 
This is almost as ambitious a start as Umass-Amherst had ... and Niagara
has no promised position in a Div. 1 league. How long do you think it will
take them to gain entry? Did Amherst have all freshmen that first season
when they won 20-games against their "warm-up" schedule (They had
Merrimack twice, Princeton, St. Lawrence and Army though.)
 
What kind of league shift do you think we'll see? HockeyEast takes
Vermont and ECAC takes in Niagara makes about the most sense.
 
- Paul.
 
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