Weekly Links (9/24/11 - 9/30/11)

Former QU star Greg Holt

There are a ton of links this week, which means one thing... college hockey season is almost here! Get excited (Greg Holt is)! The pre-season national and league rankings came out, along with pre-season all-conference teams. Here's all the links from the week.

Russ Bitely thinks the ECAC Hockey Championship should be held in NYC [Examiner]

Without A Peer thinks the league tournament location should rotate [WaP]

Union lands two recruits [Ken Schott's Blog]

USA Today has Yale (8th) and Union (11th) in national rankings (Top 15) [USA Today]

USCHO has Yale (9th), Union (11th), RPI (18), and Cornell (20) in their Top 20 [USCHO]

Article about RPI goaltender Bryce Merriman [Troy Record]

Dartmouth's Dustin Walsh featured in INCH's A-Z segment [INCH]

SLU will be teaming up with The Renewal House of Canton, NY for Goals For Good [@GoalsForGood]

2011-12 Season preview of the SLU Saints [St. Lawrence Athletics]

RPI AD talks with Ken Schott about the Engineers possibly moving to Hockey East [Ken Schott's Blog]

ECAC Coaches Pre-Season Poll and All-Conference team [1989 & Still Waiting]

ECAC Media Pre-Season Poll and All-Conference team [1989 & Still Waiting]

Know Your Enemy: Colgate [WaP]

Audio of Harvard coach Ted Donato on ECAC Media Teleconference [WHRB]

RPI adds 2011 NCAA tournament appearance to banner [@slapschotts]

The College Hockey Blog's 2011-12 ECAC season preview [TCHB]

USCHO picks Harvard's Biega (9th), RPI's Bailen (7th), and Union's M. Bodie (5th) in their top defensemen for 2011-12 [USCHO]

Cap Carey's weekly Clarkson Video Report [Knights Tales]

The QU Hockey Blog takes a look at where each ECAC team has finished over the past six years, and how many players from each team made an All-Conference team [From the Nip to the Bank]

Union teams up with The V Foundation for their Goals For Good campaign this year [@GoalsForGood]

Cornell is excited too

College Hockey News says Cornell has one of the top freshman classes this season [CHN]

Julie Robenhymer features RPI in Episode 1 of College Hockey Spotlight [Hockey Buzz]

Colgate will have three captains this season: Kevin McNamara, Corbin McPherson, and Thomas Larkin (all will wear C's) [@JohnMcGrawPBP]

USCHO picks Yale's Brian O'Neill as the 8th best forward for the 2011-12 season [USCHO]

Article about RPI's Brock Higgs' new outlook on life [Troy Record]

WHRB releases their pre-season picks [WHRB]

Cap Carey previews Clarkson's Sunday exhibition game vs. Ottawa [Knights Tales]

Ken Schott's ECAC Hockey Pick 'Em Derby starts next week [Ken Schott's Blog]

Video from an open skate at Union [Official Blog of Union Hockey]

Here's why RPI recruit Riley Bourbonnais might get drafted this year [United States of Hockey]

Daniel J. Cassavaugh recaps another great week of SLU Hockey tweets [Casstle of Saints]

QU Hockey Blog does 2011-12 player point projections for the Bobcats [From the NIP to the Bank]

Union celebrates new season by naming student section [Concordiensis]

Colgate's 2011-12 season preview [ECAC Hockey]


Good luck to all the ECAC players in pre-season action this weekend!