After tallying 12 goals and 20 assists for the Binghamton Senators — the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Ottawa Senators — forward Colin Greening '10 has earned a call up to the big club for the first time in his young career. Greening will take the roster spot previously held by veteran right winger Jarkko Ruutu, who was placed on injured reserve with a lower body injury. READ MORE.

Men's hockey center Riley Nash is taking his game to the NHL after signing a three-year deal with the Carolina Hurricanes.

Red captain Colin Greening signs on with the Ottawa Senators, while teammate Brendon Nash agrees to terms with the Montreal Canadiens. 

For the first time since 2005, two members of the men’s hockey team were named to the first team in ECAC Hockey. The league office announced yesterday afternoon that senior goaltender Ben Scrivens and defenseman Brendon Nash, also a senior, made the top list — both made the jump from second team accolades last season.

Following an electrifying, four-point weekend sweep, the men’s hockey team (12-5-3, 9-2-2 ECAC) heads on the road this weekend to face Quinnipiac tonight, in a nationally televised game, before continuing to Princeton on Saturday night.

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Cornell fell to No. 7 in the USCHO poll and No. 8 in the USA Today poll after being ranked No. 5 last week in both.

On Saturday night, the men’s hockey team got a bitter taste of what might have been. Colin Greening was sent off with a game misconduct for hitting from behind near the end of the first period, and the Red struggled for the greater part of a 3-2 loss at home to Quinnipiac, the first-place team in ECAC Hockey.

With one goal and one assist in this last weekend’s game against Niagara, senior Colin Greening continues to demonstrate his swift skills with the puck and reiterate his passion for the sport. It was no doubt to men’s hockey head coach Mike Schafer ’86 to make Greening a returning captain for Cornell to help lead the team to a victorious season.

“He is such a physical beast on the ice; he overpowers kids. His strength is that he is, in school and in hockey, 100 percent all the time, both academically and athletically,” Schafer said.

Coming into Cornell as the seventh-round draft pick for the Ottawa Senators in 2005, Greening knew he had high expectations to fulfill. During his freshman season, he appeared in all 31 games and accumulated 11 goals as a rookie.

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After a preseason filled with talk of a balanced and prolific offensive attack, the men’s hockey team relied on some familiar faces for its offensive production as it managed to squeak out a 3-2 overtime victory over Niagara on Saturday. Senior captain Colin Greening netted a goal and an assist, junior Riley Nash tallied two assists, and junior Joe Devin potted the overtime winner in the Red’s first regular season game of the year.