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R.I.T. The Tigers won their second Atlantic Hockey Association championship taking care of Air Force, Canisius and Mercyhurst before becoming the first 16 seed in NCAA hockey history to defeat the top seed with a win over Minnesota in the NCAA regionals.
Forward Gabe Valenzuela and goaltender Nick Amato were late additions to a recruiting class that also includes forwards Erik Brown, Abbott Girduckis, Liam Kerins (who sat out all of last season), and Mark Logan to go along with goaltender Christian Short. The 1984-85 Division III National Champion RIT men’s hockey team was inducted into the 2015 Frontier Field Walk of Fame in conjunction with the Greater Rochester Sports Authority on Sunday, August 16.
The championship rings have been distributed, so now the Post Matt Garbovsky-Brad MacGowan-Jordan Ruby-Brandon Thompson Tigers need to regroup. “Every year you lose guys and the chemistry of the team changes; that’s the nature of our business,” head coach Wayne Wilson said. “We can’t recapture the same feel but the parts are replaceable. It’s just the intangibles like the way Matt dominated in faceoffs and the penalty kill. We need to fill those roles as well.”
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The team returns a solid defense led by senior Alexander Kuqali, junior Alex Perron-Fontaine along with sophomores Chase and Brady Norrish plus Matt Abt, who had solid first years.
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“We’re excited about that. We fell we have eight really good “D”, but only six can play so we’ll sort through that as the year goes on.” Greece, NY native Mike Rotolo inherits the top job again in net after his nine-win season. Up front the Tigers have Josh Mitchell on the top line after his 52 point campaign. Several will have to emerge from juniors Caleb Cameron, Todd Skirving and Danny Smith, senior Andrew Miller and sophomores Myles Powell, Mark Golberg and WNY natives Max Mikowski and Garrett McMullen to pick up the scoring slack.
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