Men's Hockey | 5/15/2012 10:15:00 AM

ROCHESTER, NY - Former RIT men's hockey defensemen Dan Ringwald (Oakville, Ontario/) and Bobby Raymond (Lucknow, Ontario/Owen Sound) remain alive in the postseason for their respective clubs. Ringwald plays for the AHL's Oklahoma City Barons, who play the Toronto Marlies in the Western Conference Finals, beginning on Thursday, May 17. Raymond, who won a Calder Cup with the AHL's Binghamton Senators in 2011, plays for the Florida Everblades of the ECHL, who have advanced to the Kelly Cup Finals against Las Vegas, which started Monday, May 14.

Ringwald has three assists and is tied for the team-high at plus-8 in nine playoff games.  Oklahoma City, the top-seed in the West, is 8-1 through nine postseason games. At RIT, Ringwald finished with 21 goals and 104 assists for 125 points in 145 career games. He is RIT's all-time leader in assists, third in games played, and fourth all-time in points. He is also RIT's leader in points by a defenseman at the DI level. He earned 2009-10 All-USCHO (United States College Hockey Online) second team honors and helped lead the Tigers to the Frozen Four that season.

Raymond has appeared in all 13 games in the postseason, recording eight points on two goals and six assists and is plus-11. Raymond, who played every game of his RIT career from 2005-09, was an All-Rookie Team selection for the Everblades in 2010-11. At RIT, Raymond was an All-Atlantic Hockey Association third-team selection in 2008 and a second team selection in 2009, while finishing 13 goals and 29 assists in 144 collegiate games He split time with Binghamton and Florida during the 2011-12 regular season.

If Oklahoma City were to win the Calder Cup, it would mark the fourth straight season a former Tiger has won that championship (Raymond, 2011, Binghamton, Steve Pinizzotto, 2009 and 2010, Hershey).