{"id":149161,"date":"2024-10-16T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=149161"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:53:44","slug":"rensselaers-smith-on-this-seasons-engineers-recruiting-changing-college-hockey-landscape-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-7-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2024\/10\/16\/rensselaers-smith-on-this-seasons-engineers-recruiting-changing-college-hockey-landscape-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-7-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rensselaer&#8217;s Smith on this season&#8217;s Engineers, recruiting, changing college hockey landscape: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 7 Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rensselaer head coach Dave Smith joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to talk this season&#8217;s Engineers, their opening weekend at Canisius, recruiting, possible CHL eligibility, the transfer portal, RPI&#8217;s coming weekend against Niagara, and more.<\/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=62387161&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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