2020–21 LIU Sharks men's ice hockey season

The 2020–21 LIU Sharks men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program at the Division I level. The Sharks represented Long Island University and were coached by Brett Riley, in his 1st season. 
==Season==
Prior to the season, LIU entered into a scheduling partnership with Atlantic Hockey. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LIU would schedule games against members of Atlantic Hockey but would not be eligible for the conference tournament. In August, the NCAA granted a blanket waiver for all winter sports, not counting the 2020–21 season against eligibility. This gave all LIU players an additional year of college hockey.
==Recruiting==
Due to LIU not possessing a club team the previous season, the entire varsity roster was assembled from scratch. Eleven transfers from other college programs were used as the framework for the inaugural team roster while 15 freshman were part of LUI's first recruiting class. At first, it was expected that the six non-graduate transfer players would not play for LIU in its first season. However, in December the NCAA changed its transfer rules, dropping the requirement that students had to sit out a year when changing schools.
==Roster==
As of October 8, 2020.
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==Standings==
==Schedule and Results==
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!colspan=12 style=";" | Regular Season
==Scoring Statistics==
Name 	Position	Games	Goals	Assists	Points	
 	F 	12 	3 	4 	7 	4
 	F 	11 	4 	2 	6 	31
 	D 	11 	3 	3 	6 	4
 	C 	10 	2 	3 	5 	24
 	D 	11 	1 	4 	5 	8
 	F 	12 	3 	1 	4 	4
 	D 	13 	3 	1 	4 	6
 	F 	13 	1 	3 	4 	2
 	C 	12 	2 	0 	2 	4
 	F 	8 	1 	1 	2 	4
 	C 	10 	0 	2 	2 	4
 	D 	11 	0 	2 	2 	19
 	D 	13 	0 	2 	2 	6
 	F 	8 	0 	1 	1 	2
 	LW 	8 	0 	1 	1 	2
 	LW 	9 	0 	1 	1 	24
 	D 	12 	0 	1 	1 	8
 	F 	13 	0 	1 	1 	0
 	G 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	6 	0 	0 	0 	2
 	D 	7 	0 	0 	0 	8
 	G 	9 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	9 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	9 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	10 	0 	0 	0 	10
Bench	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	6
Total	 	 	23 	33 	56 	182
==Goaltending statistics==
Name 	Games	Minutes	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals Against	Saves	Shut Outs	 	
 	4 	211 	1 	2 	0 	12 	111 	0 	.902	3.40
 	9 	537 	2 	7 	0 	36 	329 	0 	.901	4.02
 	1 	29 	0 	1 	0 	3 	12 	0 	.800	6.08
Empty Net	- 	7 	- 	- 	- 	4 	- 	- 	- 	-
Total 	13 	786 	3 	10 	0 	55 	452 	0 	.892	4.20
==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.
==References==
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