portion of article that originally appeared on ECRHA website:
The 2017/2018 ECRHA season is finally here! After much anticipation, players, coaches, staff, family, and friends all are excited about the upcoming year, and that excitement was met with the annual Columbus Day preseason exhibition weekend in Feasterville, PA this past weekend.
Division 1:
In Division One, we saw a lot of familiar faces walk through the double doors of the SportsPlex, and we saw a lot of familiar teams play well on the rink. Defending National Champion Farmingdale for instance, took care of business as usual, finishing the weekend, 3-0 including wins over two other historical powerhouses in the division, West Chester and Neumann.
Speaking of familiar faces, the Pride of Slippery Rock returned to the ECRHA after a year of absence, and they made quite the statement in their return to the rink, finishing the exhibition weekend as the only other team apart from Farmingdale undefeated at 3-0. With a lot of new, young faces in the green and black, Slippery Rock will be a team to keep a close eye on this year.
Throughout Division One, Rowan, West Chester, and UMass finished the weekend above .500 as well, interestingly enough, all of whom did so while having a negative goal differential. If these three teams, as well as Neumann, Robert Morris, Cortland, Temple, and Rhode Island, can take what they saw this past weekend, and make some adjustments heading into the regular season, we could be in for a very interesting year!
