ROCHESTER, NY - The RIT men's hockey team will hold its annual "Skate with The Tigers" event at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17 at the Gene Polisseni Center. Admission is $5.00 and includes the event, a team picture, autographs from your favorite players, and a tour of RIT's new locker room. Skate rental is available at Ritter Arena to bring over to the Polisseni Center. All proceeds from the event will go to "Hockey Coaches Care", the official charitable foundation of the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA).

"Hockey Coaches Care" was created by hockey coaches to assist members of the amateur hockey community in the United States. It has been designed to help a coach or family member or other member of the greater amateur hockey community who is ill or injured in an accident or who has lost a job or has in some other way come upon hard times.