The Crusaders represented the College of the Holy Cross and were coached by Bill Riga, in his 1st season.

The offense slowly improved as the season went along, but Holy Cross couldn't keep the puck out of their own net, allowing at least 3 goals in fifteen of their eighteen games in the first half of the year.

The second half of the year was going much like the first and Holy Cross found itself mired in at the bottom of the Atlantic Hockey standings.

However, the Crusaders seemed to turn things around when the defeated the top team in the conference, American International, at the end of the month.

While they were too far back in the standings to move up, the late surge gave the team hope that they could advance in the postseason.