Re: 2014-15 Schedules
FROM 2013-14 season: The Red Stars are an all-star team of 25 players, ages 17 to 21, from the 64-team junior-level hockey league called the Molodezhnaya Hokkeynaya Liga (MHL). The league is the younger brother and feeder system of the Kontinental Hockey League, which is the primary professional hockey league in Russia and regarded by many to be the second-best league in the world. The MHL, with more than 2,000 players, is in its fifth year of existence and is the first junior hockey league that unites Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia. ... This is the fourth North American trip for the Red Stars, but their first visit to Lynah Rink. The game against Cornell will be the fifth and final contest on the tour for the Red Stars, which began with a 5-4 victory Dec. 26 against an all-star team from the Eastern Junior Hockey League. ... The Red Stars then lost Friday at Yale, 6-3, and surrendered five goals in the first period en route to a 9-3 loss Sunday at Harvard. The team dropped a 3-2 decision Tuesday at Colgate, then had a Thursday game at Merrimack canceled due to inclement weather.