Which are the top teams heading into the season, plus new coaches, new league, new rules: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 5 Episode 1

Hosts Jim Connelly, Derek Schooley, and Ed Trefzger look back at news from this summer and look ahead to the new season.

This podcast is sponsored by DCU – Digital Federal Credit Union – at dcu.org

Topics include:

• Who are our No. 1 teams right now and who are some dark horses?

• Coaching changes at four top programs: Boston College, Boston University, Michigan, Michigan State

• Will we see a new Division I men’s hockey conference soon?

• Analyzing the rule changes for this season, especially video replay

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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 is a color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey’s radio network and an 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, a 2022 inductee of the RIT Sports Hall of Fame, and has been involved with RIT broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception in 1982. He is co-owner and COO of broadcasting company Genesee Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.