2020–21 Holy Cross Crusaders men's ice hockey season

The 2020–21 Holy Cross Crusaders men's ice hockey season was the 57th season of play for the program, the 23rd at the Division I level, and the 18th season in the Atlantic Hockey conference. The Crusaders represented the College of the Holy Cross and were coached by David Berard, in his 7th season.
The start of the college hockey season was delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As a result, Holy Cross's first scheduled game was in mid-November as opposed to early-October, which was the norm.
==Season==
Despite several COVID-related changes to the schedule, Holy Cross began the season well, winning 4 of their first 6 games and sat near the top of the conference in early December with a 4–1 mark in Atlantic Hockey play. The team added a series against Quinnipiac just before Christmas and the two losses seemed to reverse the Crusaders' fortunes. Holy Cross lost all of their remaining games with the offense being dormant for most of those contests. In their final 10 matches, Holy Cross scored just 10 goals and were shut out 4 times. With their schedule being rearranged in February, the Crusaders played only two games in the entire month and sat at the bottom of their conference when the Atlantic Hockey tournament was set to begin.
Four days before they were to play Sacred Heart in the first round, Holy Cross received a positive Covid test and immediately suspended all team activities. This caused the team to withdraw from the conference tournament and cancel the remainder of their season.
Erkka Vänskä sat out for the season.
==Departures==
Charlie Barrow 	Defenseman		Graduation
Will Brophy 	Defenseman		Graduation
Beau Collins 	Goaltender		Graduation
Kevin Darrar 	Forward 		Graduation
Christian Hayes	Forward 		Transferred to Trinity
Patrick O'Leary	Defenseman		Graduation
Neil Robinson 	Forward 		Graduation
Dalton Skelly 	Defenseman		Graduation (Signed with Knoxville Ice Bears)
Jack Surowiec 	Forward 		Graduation
==Recruiting==
Alec Cicero 	Forward 		19	Buffalo, NY
Jake Higgins 	Defenseman		19	Hingham, MA
Michael Kane 	Forward 		20	Guilford, CT
Jack MacNab 	Forward 		22	Indianapolis, IN; transfer from Notre Dame
Ryan Pineault 	Defenseman		19	Glastonbury, CT
Jack Ricketts 	Forward 		21	Oakville, ON
Jack Robilotti	Defenseman		19	New York, NY
Lucas Thorne 	Forward 		21	Dunnville, ON
==Roster==
As of August 31, 2020.
==Standings==
==Schedule and Results==
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==Scoring statistics==
 	F 	12	4 	5 	9 	23
 	C 	13	5 	3 	8 	12
 	F 	14	2 	6 	8 	6
 	RW	15	3 	4 	7 	8
 	F 	14	3 	2 	5 	29
 	C 	16	2 	2 	4 	10
 	F 	13	2 	1 	3 	6
 	C 	15	2 	1 	3 	2
 	D 	16	2 	1 	3 	20
 	D 	13	1 	2 	3 	2
 	C 	10	0 	3 	3 	4
 	C 	5 	1 	1 	2 	2
 	D 	15	1 	1 	2 	4
 	D 	16	1 	1 	2 	6
 	F 	14	0 	2 	2 	6
 	D 	15	0 	2 	2 	4
 	F 	16	1 	0 	1 	4
 	RW	8 	0 	1 	1 	6
 	D 	13	0 	1 	1 	4
 	F 	16	0 	1 	1 	2
 	D 	16	0 	1 	1 	0
 	D 	5 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	6 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	7 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	11	0 	0 	0 	0
Bench	- 	16	0 	0 	0 	8
Total	 	 	30	41	71	170
==Goaltending statistics==
 	11	648	4	7 	0	29	281	0	.906	2.68
 	6 	312	0	5 	0	21	141	0	.870	4.03
Empty Net	- 	4 	-	- 	-	2 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	16	966	4	12	0	52	422	0	.890	3.23
==Rankings==
Poll 	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week 	Week	Week	Week
Poll 	Pre 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	15 	16 	17 	18 	19 	20 	21 (Final)	 	 	
USCHO.com	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	- 	NR 	 	 	
USA Today	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	 	 	
USCHO did not release a poll in week 20.
==Awards and honors==
Matt Slick	Atlantic Hockey Second Team	
==References==
2020–21
Category:2020–21 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey season
Category:2020–21 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey by team
Category:2020–21 in American ice hockey by team