TROY, N.Y. – The NBC Sports Group will air 16 live men's college hockey games this season and two of those will originate from the Houston Field House and the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Engineers gain national exposure on January 6 and February 3. To accommodate those contests, both games will now begin at 7:30pm, instead of the original start time of 7pm.

Rensselaer's game against Dartmouth College on Friday, January 6 kicks off the four-game ECAC Hockey portion of the coverage by Versus, which will be re-branded as NBC Sports Network.  The Engineers other game to be aired live is Friday, February 3 against Cornell University.

RPI now has eight games that will be televised this season. In addition to the two on Versus/NBC Sports Network, Time Warner Cable Sports will carry six contests. Three of those will be home games and the other three will be from the road.

The complete schedule is:
• Friday, November 11: Yale at Rensselaer (Black Friday) at 7pm on TWCS
• Friday, November 25: Rensselaer at RIT at 7pm on TWCS
• Friday, January 6: Dartmouth at Rensselaer at 7:30pm on Versus/NBC Sports Network
• Saturday, January 14: Rensselaer at Union at 7pm on TWCS
• Saturday, January 28: Clarkson at Rensselaer at 7pm on TWCS
• Friday, February 3: Cornell at Rensselaer at 7:30pm on Versus/NBC Sports Network
• Saturday, February 4: Colgate at Rensselaer (35th Annual Big Red Freakout! presented by Bank of America) at 7pm on TWCS
• Friday, February 24: Rensselaer at Colgate at 7pm on TWCS

Rensselaer, which is coached by Seth Appert, is in action this weekend as it travels to the North Country to open the ECAC Hockey slate against Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Friday and Saturday nights. Both games begin at 7pm and can be heard live on WRPI, 91.5 FM, and www.wrpi.org.