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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ed Krajewski [email protected] COACHES’ PRESEASON ALL-LEAGUE TEAM ANNOUNCED A Mixture of Seniors and Underclassman on Team

ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey coaches votes are in for the 2008-09 preseason all-league team, which is headlined by Hobey Baker finalist and ECAC Hockey Player of the Year Lee Jubinville, from Princeton. In in Zane Kalemba, the 2008 Most Outstanding Player of the ECAC Hockey tournament, is the coaches’ selection between the pipes. Joining Kalemba on the team are defensemen Alex Biega, from Harvard, who is making his second con- secutive appearance on the team and Lane Caffaro, Union’s team captain. On the offensive side of the ice, Colin Greening, who scored 33 points last season for Cornell, Sean Backman, the leading scorer from Yale and Matt Beca, who led Clarkson with 34 points join Jubinville.

ZANE KALEMBA ALEX BIEGA LANE CAFFARO LEE JUBINVILLE COLIN GREENING SEAN BACKMAN MATT BECA PRINCETON HARVARD UNION PRINCETON CORNELL YALE CLARKSON JR., GOALTENDER JR., DEFENSE SR., DEFENSE SR., FORWARD JR., FORWARD JR., FORWARD JR., FORWARD

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