2009–10 RIT Tigers men's ice hockey season explained

The 2009–10 RIT Tigers men's ice hockey season was the Tigers' 45th season of varsity hockey and fifth at the NCAA Division I level. They represented Rochester Institute of Technology in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team was coached by Wayne Wilson in his eleventh season as the program's head coach and played most of their home games at the Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena. One home game was played at the Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester, New York.

The season was highlighted by the Tigers' first Atlantic Hockey tournament title, first Division I NCAA tournament appearance, victories over Denver and New Hampshire to win the East Regional, and the team's first Frozen Four appearance.

The team was the Chairman's Choice for induction into the Frontier Field Walk of Fame in 2010, in recognition of their Frozen Four berth.

The Rochester Red Wings honored the RIT Men’s Hockey team at Frontier Field on May 17, 2010. Any fans who wore RIT gear received $1 off the purchase of their tickets. As part of a pre-game ceremony, Head Coach Wayne Wilson and RIT President Bill Destler were on hand to accept a key to the city and a proclamation from Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks. RIT captain Dan Ringwald threw out the ceremonial first pitch.^[1]

In 2011, RIT's University News service received the 'Best In Show' PRism award from the Rochester chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for its coverage of the team's Frozen Four appearance.^[2]

Roster

Goaltenders
width=5%		width=5%	State	align=left!	width=16%	Player	width=7%	Year	width=17%	Major	width=6%	Height	width=6%	Weight	width=20%	Hometown	width=18%	Previous Team
1		Shane Madolora	Freshman	Business Management	5-10	170	Salinas, California	Omaha (USHL)
33		Jared DeMichiel	Senior	Business	6-1	190	Avon, Connecticut	Chicago (USHL)
40		Jan Ropponen	Junior	International Business	5-9	165	Espoo, Finland	Espoo (SM-liiga)

Defensemen
width=5%		width=5%	State	align=left!	width=16%	Player	width=7%	Year	width=17%	Major	width=6%	Height	width=6%	Weight	width=20%	Hometown	width=18%	Previous Team
6		Dan Ringwald (C)	Senior	Business	6-1	195	Oakville, Ontario	Oakville (OJAHL)
8		Chris Tanev	Freshman	Finance	6-2	185	Toronto, Ontario	Markham (CCHL)
15		Alan Mazur	Senior	Packaging Science	6-0	200	Burnaby, British Columbia	Merritt (BCHL)
24		Chris Haltigin	Sophomore	Biomedical Science	6-1	200	Oakville, Ontario	Oakville (OJAHL)
25		Daniel Spivak	Sophomore	Business/Finance	6-0	185	Thornhill, Ontario	Stouffville (CCHL)
26		Trevor Eckenswiller	Sophomore	Biomedical Science	6-0	180	Lion's Head, Ontario	Oakville (OJAHL)
27		Chris Saracino	Freshman	Business	5-10	185	St. Louis, Missouri	Green Bay (USHL)
9*		Riley Clark*	Sophomore	Biomedicine	5-11	195	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	Melfort (SJHL)

Forwards
width=5%		width=5%	State	align=left!	width=16%	Player	width=7%	Year	width=17%	Major	width=6%	Height	width=6%	Weight	width=20%	Hometown	width=18%	Previous Team
3		Scott Knowles	Sophomore	Marketing	5-7	170	Riverside, Ontario	Surrey (BCHL)
7		Bryan Potts	Freshman	Criminal Justice	5-11	180	Niagara Falls, Ontario	Markham (CCHL)
10		Mark Cornacchia	Sophomore	Finance	5-10	180	Unionville, Ontario	Markham (CCHL)
11		Taylor McReynolds	Sophomore	Biomedicine	6-0	190	Sherwood Park, Alberta	Green Bay (USHL)
12		Stevan Matic (C)	Senior	Packaging Science	6-0	190	Burnaby, British Columbia	Langley Hornets (BCHL)
14		Brent Alexin	Senior	Packaging Science	6-1	200	West Seneca, New York	Buffalo (OJAHL)
16		Tyler Brenner	Sophomore	Business	6-2	190	Linwood, Ontario	Elmira (GOJHL)
17		Sean Murphy (A)	Junior	Civil Engineering Technology	6-0	190	Owatonna, Minnesota	Green Bay (USHL)
18		Cameron Burt	Sophomore	Business	5-10	160	Detroit, Michigan	Green Bay (USHL)
19		Tyler Mazzei	Junior	Business	5-9	170	Kelowna, British Columbia	Nanaimo (BCHL)
21		Jeff Smith	Freshman	Science Exploration	6-0	165	Spokane, Washington	Tri-City (USHL)
22		Adam Hartley	Freshman	Business	6-3	190	West Vancouver, British Columbia	Surrey (BCHL)
23		Mike Janda	Junior	Marketing	6-2	225	Glen Ellyn, Illinois	Chicago (USHL)
28		Andrew Favot (A)	Junior	Business (Marketing)	5-7	160	King City, Ontario	Aurora (OJAHL)

• Player left team.
  Source: RIT Athletics^[3]

Preseason

2009 Exhibition Game Log: 1–0–0 (Home: 1–0–0 ; Road: 0–0–0)
	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Decision	Attendance	Record
1	October 4		3–2				1–0–0

Regular season

Schedule

• Green background indicates win (2 points).
• Red background indicates loss (0 points).
• White background indicates tie (1 point).

2009–10 Game Log^[4]
October: 2–5–0 (Home: 2–1–0; Road: 0–4–0) Date Visitor Score Home Decision Attendance AHA Overall 1†^ October 10 3–2 RIT DeMichiel 7,421 0–0–0 0–1–0 2† October 16 RIT 1–3 DeMichiel 1,655 0–0–0 0–2–0 3† October 17 RIT 3–5 DeMichiel 3,310 0–0–0 0–3–0 4 October 23 RIT 4–5 DeMichiel 2,822 0–1–0 0–4–0 5 October 24 RIT 2–3 (ot) Air Force DeMichiel 2,210 0–2–0 0–5–0 6 October 30 2–6 RIT DeMichiel 1,839 1–2–0 1–5–0 7 October 31 Connecticut 0–7 RIT DeMichiel 1,457 2–2–0 2–5–0
November: 6–0–0 (Home: 4–0–0; Road: 2–0–0) Date Visitor Score Home Decision Attendance AHA Overall 8 November 6 1–6 RIT DeMichiel 2,100 3–2–0 3–5–0 9 November 7 Army 1–2 RIT DeMichiel 1,956 4–2–0 4–5–0 10 November 13 RIT 2–1 DeMichiel 967 5–2–0 5–5–0 11 November 13 RIT 3–2 Mercyhurst DeMichiel 946 6–2–0 6–5–0 12 November 20 2–3 RIT DeMichiel 1,459 7–2–0 7–5–0 13 November 21 Sacred Heart 3–5 RIT Madolora 1,206 8–2–0 8–5–0
December: 1–1–1 (Home: 0–1–0; Road: 1–0–1) Date Visitor Score Home Decision Attendance AHA Overall 14 December 4 RIT 1–1 (ot) DeMichiel 908 8–2–1 8–5–1 15 December 5 RIT 3–2 Holy Cross DeMichiel 923 9–2–1 9–5–1 16† December 12 3–2 RIT DeMichiel 2,100 9–2–1 9–6–1
January: 6–4–0 (Home: 3–1–0; Road: 3–3–0) Date Visitor Score Home Decision Attendance AHA Overall 17† January 1 RIT 1–6 DeMichiel 3,106 9–2–1 9–7–1 18† January 2 RIT 0–3 Minnesota State Madolora 3,313 9–2–1 9–8–1 19 January 8 2–5 RIT DeMichiel 1,946 10–2–1 10–8–1 20 January 9 Holy Cross 0–2 RIT DeMichiel 1,737 11–2–1 11–8–1 21 January 15 RIT 4–0 DeMichiel 581 12–2–1 12–8–1 22 January 16 RIT 1–2 Connecticut Madolora 735 12–3–1 12–9–1 23 January 22 RIT 4–3 DeMichiel 234 13–3–1 13–9–1 24 January 23 RIT 4–0 American Int'l DeMichiel 210 14–3–1 14–9–1 25 January 29 1–4 RIT DeMichiel 1,692 15–3–1 15–9–1 26° January 30 Bentley 5–4 RIT DeMichiel 2,100 15–4–1 15–10–1
February: 7–1–0 (Home: 4–0–0; Road: 3–1–0) Date Visitor Score Home Decision Attendance AHA Overall 27 February 5 RIT 5–2 DeMichiel 657 16–4–1 16–10–1 28 February 6 RIT 4–5 Sacred Heart DeMichiel 438 16–5–1 16–11–1 29 February 12 RIT 3–0 DeMichiel 2,139 17–5–1 17–11–1 30 February 13 RIT 5–2 Army DeMichiel 2,128 18–5–1 18–11–1 31 February 19 2–3 (ot) RIT DeMichiel 2,100 19–5–1 19–11–1 32 February 20 Air Force 0–3 RIT DeMichiel 2,100 20–5–1 20–11–1 33 February 26 0–8 RIT DeMichiel 1,363 21–5–1 21–11–1 34 February 27 Canisius 4–5 RIT DeMichiel 1,632 22–5–1 22–11–1 † Denotes a non-conference game ^ Denotes alternate home site: Blue Cross Arena (Rochester, New York) ° Denotes "Make the Rink Pink" game

Player stats

Skaters

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals (Shorthanded); A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalty minutes

Regular season^[5]

align=left	Ringwald, Dan	34	10	18	28	+17	12
align=left	Tanev, Chris	34	8	16	24	+28	4
align=left	Haltigin, Chris	34	8	10	18	+7	22
align=left	Alexin, Brent	34	3	15	18	+17	35
align=left	Hartley, Adam	34	7	8	15	+12	32
align=left	Favot, Andrew	33	11 (1)	26	37	+12	20
align=left	Burt, Cameron	33	13	23	36	0	44
align=left	Mazzei, Tyler	33	9	13	22	+8	46
align=left	Mazur, Alan	32	7	14	21	0	57
align=left	Matic, Stevan	32	7 (1)	10	17	+9	27
align=left	Cornacchia, Mark	32	6 (2)	5	11	+4	22
align=left	Saracino, Chris	32	2	6	8	+7	16
align=left	Murphy, Sean	31	4	11	15	+6	20
align=left	Knowles, Scott	31	4	11	15	+12	13
align=left	McReynolds, Taylor	31	3	3	6	+3	52
align=left	DeMichiel, Jared ^(G)	31	0	2	2	0	4
align=left	Brenner, Tyler	26	10	8	18	+3	22
align=left	Janda, Mike	25	4	4	8	0	10
align=left	Spivak, Daniel	25	0	0	0	+6	28
align=left	Smith, Jeff	18	1	4	5	+4	15
align=left	Potts, Bryan	15	1	0	1	−2	2
align=left	Eckenswiller, Trevor	13	0	3	3	0	6
align=left	Madolora, Shane ^(G)	4	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Ropponen, Jan ^(G)	1	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Clark, Riley ^†	0	0	0	0	0	0

• ^† Denotes player left team.
• ^(G) Denotes goaltender.

Playoffs

align=left	Burt, Cameron	7	3	8	11	−1	4
align=left	Favot, Andrew	7	2	7	9	+2	4
align=left	Ringwald, Dan	7	1	8	9	+5	0
align=left	Brenner, Tyler	7	5	3	8	+3	2
align=left	Haltigin, Chris	7	3	3	6	0	4
align=left	Tanev, Chris	7	2	2	4	+5	0
align=left	Saracino, Chris	7	0	4	4	+1	4
align=left	Alexin, Brent	7	1	2	3	+2	2
align=left	Cornacchia, Mark	7	1 (1)	2	3	+3	17
align=left	Hartley, Adam	7	1	2	3	+1	2
align=left	Mazzei, Tyler	7	1	2	3	+5	8
align=left	Janda, Mike	7	1	1	2	+1	6
align=left	Knowles, Scott	7	1	1	2	−1	4
align=left	Mazur, Alan	7	1	1	2	+2	10
align=left	McReynolds, Taylor	7	0	0	0	+1	10
align=left	Spivak, Daniel	7	0	0	0	+1	0
align=left	DeMichiel, Jared ^(G)	7	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Murphy, Sean	5	2	2	4	+2	4
align=left	Matic, Stevan	5	1	0	1	0	4
align=left	Smith, Jeff	4	1	1	2	+4	2
align=left	Madolora, Shane ^(G)	1	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Ropponen, Jan ^(G)	1	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Potts, Bryan	0	0	0	0	0	0
align=left	Eckenswiller, Trevor	0	0	0	0	0	0

• ^(G) Denotes goaltender.

Goaltenders

Note: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals against; SV% = Save percentage

Regular season

align=left	DeMichiel, Jared	31	1846:05	21	9	1	65	2.11	811	746	.920	5
align=left	Madolora, Shane	4	189:42	1	2	0	8	2.53	98	90	.918	0
align=left	Ropponen, Jan	1	9:12	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	2	1.000	0
align=left	– Empty Net –	–	10:23	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–

Playoffs

align=left	DeMichiel, Jared	7	424:03	6	1	0	14	1.98	188	174	.926	1
align=left	Madolora, Shane	1	2:33	0	0	0	1	23.53	1	0	.000	0
align=left	Ropponen, Jan	1	2:32	0	0	0	1	23.68	3	2	.667	0
align=left	– Empty Net –	–	0:36	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–

See also

• 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season

External links

• RIT Tigers men's ice hockey

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wings to honor RIT Tiger Hockey Monday. May 15, 2010.
2. Web site: Stella . Paul . RIT University News Takes 'Best in Show' at 2011 PRism Awards . RIT University News . June 10, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121010093812/http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=48413 . October 10, 2012 . Henrietta, New York . June 10, 2011 . live . mdy .
3. http://www.ritathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mhock 2009-10 RIT Tigers Men's Hockey Roster
4. Web site: Rochester Institute of Technology. 2009–10 Men's Hockey Schedule. February 28, 2010.
5. Web site: RIT - Cumulative Season Statistics.