March 4, 2010

Rensselaer Revival

The following article appeared March 3 on the College Hockey News (CHN) Web site.

 

By Adam Wodon
Managing Editor

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 titles of their own, to take over the Engineers. He did so among questions about whether RPI, a scholarship hockey school but within a small Division III institution, was even capable of getting close to such lofty heights again.

Complete article can be accessed via the CHN Web site by clicking here.