Correction: This article incorrectly stated that the 2010 ECAC Hockey championships would be held in Atlantic City, N.J. The 2010 tournament championship will be held in Albany, N.Y., as it has been for the past six years, and beginning in 2011, it will move to Atlantic City. The Sun regrets this error.

After suffering a 5-0 loss to Yale in the 2009 ECAC Hockey championship game, the men’s hockey team was picked to finish second in the league behind the Bulldogs in the upcoming season. The Red finished behind the Bulldogs in the coaches’ and the media poll, which were released by the league on Monday. Junior forward Riley Nash, who led the team with 35 points last season, was named to the coaches’ and media all-league team. His older brother, senior defenseman Brendon Nash, was named to the media all-league team.

Yale edged out Cornell by a 117-113 margin in the coaches’ poll, and just a 278-272 margin in the media poll, the slimmest margin between the top-2 teams in eight years. The Red lost several key players to graduation after the 2008-09 season, but returns both Nash brothers, forwards Colin Greening and Blake Gallagher and goalie Ben Scrivens, all seniors. Greening and Gallagher finished second and third on the team behind Riley Nash. The Clan o'Riley: Junior forward Riley Nash, who plays on the men’s hockey team with his brother Brendon, led the Red with 35 points last season and was named to the coaches’ and media all-league team.Scrivens posted a 22-10-4 record in the 2008-09 season. Princeton goalie Zane Kalemba was picked to the preseason all-league team by the coaches and the media, but at least statistically, Scrivens was just as good as Kalemba last season, if not better. Kalemba’s 1.82 goals-against average and .932 save percentage are slightly worse than Scrivens’ 1.81 and .931. Riley Nash’s 35 points tied for fifth-best in the league. Only two returning players racked up more points than Nash last season — Colgate’s David McIntyre and Union’s Adam Presizniuk.

Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and Union were picked Nos. 3-6 in both the coaches’ and media polls. Harvard and Dartmouth were both 1-1 against the Red last season, while Cornell used a win in the ECAC Hockey semifinals to boost its record against Princeton to 2-1. Cornell went 2-0 against Union.

If the Red fulfills preseason expectations and makes it to the league tournament, it will have to head farther from home than in recent years. After playing the final two rounds of the league tournament in Albany, N.Y., for the past six years, ECAC Hockey announced yesterday that, beginning in 2011, championships will be hosted in Atlantic City, N.J. Previous tournament sites include Boston Garden, Boston Arena, Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y. and the Times Union Center in Albany.

Men’s hockey opens play at home on Oct. 23 with a 7 p.m. face-off against the University of Windsor. The regular season starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 when the Red faces off against Niagara at Lynah Rink.