In a logjam atop ECAC Hockey, Yale’s Keith Allain has the Bulldogs in the hunt for a regular-season championship: USCHO Spotlight episode 19

Keith Allain (Yale - Head Coach) The Boston University Terriers defeated the visiting Yale University Bulldogs 5-2 on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. (Melissa Wade)
Keith Allain (file photo: Melissa Wade)

Yale finds itself in the midst of a logjam atop the ECAC Hockey standings with just four games left in the regular season. Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger talk with Allain about this year’s team, the Ivy League’s strength this season, strong fan support at Ingalls Rink, and the ECAC landscape.

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About the hosts

Jim Connelly is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes “Tuesday Morning Quarterback.” Jim is the winner of the 2012 Joe Concannon award. He a former color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey’s radio network and studio analyst for NESN.

Ed Trefzger has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Rochester Institute of Technology hockey on the RIT Tigers Sports Network, and has been involved with the broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception. He is co-owner and president of broadcasting company Genesee Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.