HAMILTON, N.Y. (3/20/08) – Colgate seniors Tyler Burton (Langley, B.C.), Mark Dekanich (North Vancouver, B.C.) and Jesse Winchester (Long Sault, Ont.) all earned a spot on the 2008 all-ECAC Hockey teams, the league announced at its banquet on Thursday, Mar. 20, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Albany. Burton was named to the all-league second team, while Dekanich and Winchester both made the third team.

Burton has been named to an all-league team all four years of his college career. He enters this weekend’s championship with a league-leading 40 points and 22 goals, including five game-winning goals. During league play, Burton posted 20 points, and ranked second in ECAC Hockey with 13 goals. Burton ranks 17^th in school history with 154 career points, and his 82 goals rank seventh in the Raider annals. His 156 career games played is a school record, and he is third all-time at Colgate with 15 game-winning goals. Burton was named to the all-league second team last season, after earning a spot on the first team as a sophomore. He was an all-rookie team selection as a freshman.

Dekanich is making his third straight appearance on an all-league team. A finalist for the 2008 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, the top award presented by the NCAA to a senior student-athlete, Dekanich owns a 2.12 goals against average and .926 save percentage overall this season. He finished the ECAC Hockey portion of the schedule with a 2.02 goals against average and .928 save percentage, both of which ranked third in the league. Last weekend, Dekanich broke Colgate’s records for saves in a career (3,040) and in a single season (1,012). He holds five of the Raiders’ seven career goaltending records, and four of the seven single-season records. The 2006 Ken Dryden Award winner as ECAC Hockey’s goaltender of the year, Dekanich earned a spot on the all-league first team as a sophomore, and was named to the second team last season.

Winchester earned a spot on an all-league team for the second year in a row. He ranks second on the team and is tied for third in ECAC Hockey with 37 points this season, including a league-leading 29 assists. In conference play, Winchester tied for ninth in the league with 20 points, including 15 assists, which tied for fifth. During his career, Winchester has scored 114 points, which ranks 32^nd on Colgate’s all-time scoring list. His 141 games played is tied for sixth all-time at Colgate. Winchester is one of seven ECAC Hockey student-athletes who have been selected to participate in the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge in Denver, and he was one of 20 candidates for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. Last season, Winchester was named to the all-ECAC Hockey second team.

The eighth-seeded Raiders take on the second seed, No. 15 Princeton, in the first semifinal of the 2008 Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship at the Times Union Center in Albany, starting at 4:00 p.m. The winner of that game will play the victor of the second semifinal, which pits third-seeded No. 16 Harvard against fifth-seeded No. 20 Cornell, in Saturday’s championship game. Both semifinals and the title tilt will be televised on Time Warner Sports in Upstate New York, SportsNet New York, and the NHL Network; the championship game will also be televised on Comcast’s CN8.