{"id":142807,"date":"2023-10-18T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=142807"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:29:44","slug":"holy-cross-coach-riga-on-3-0-start-for-crusaders-creating-an-identity-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-6-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2023\/10\/18\/holy-cross-coach-riga-on-3-0-start-for-crusaders-creating-an-identity-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-6-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cross coach Riga on 3-0 start for Crusaders, creating an identity: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 6 Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Holy Cross head coach Bill Riga to discuss his Crusaders&#8217; 3-0 start, creating an identity, making incremental improvements, the college hockey transfer portal, NIL, and the upcoming series at Robert Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-spotlight\/id1437717447?mt=2\">on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185680\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=57296427&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Check out all of <a href=\"\/podcasts\">USCHO&#8217;s college hockey podcasts<\/a>, including USCHO Weekend Review and USCHO Edge, plus our entire podcast archive.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. 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