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. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.