2022–23 RPI Engineers men's ice hockey season

The 2022-23 RPI Engineers Men's ice hockey season was the 103rd season of play for the program and the 61st in the ECAC Hockey conference. The Engineers represented Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, played their home games at Houston Field House and were coached by Dave Smith, in his 5th season.
==Season==
Entering the season, Rensselaer had to contend with the loss of each of their top 6 goal-scorers from last season. Early on, at least, the Engineers didn't appear to miss those players as RPI began the season 4–0. Unfortunately, as soon as the team left the friendly confines of the Houston Field House, the Engineers began to lose. Rensselaer lost its first 9 away game on the year and tumbled down the national rankings. During that stretch a slight lack of offense was apparent for the team and the Engineers scored 30 fewer goals than they had the year before, albeit in 9 fewer games. The bigger problem for the team was the decline in performance in goal. While the defense allowed an average of less the 30 shots against per game, the team saw its goals against average increase by more than half a goal. Jack Watson's less-than-stellar performance in the leading role saw the team regress and finish well below .500.
RPI ended the season in a tie for 7th in the conference standings but were able to receive a home site for the first round. They played host to one of the worst offenses in the nation, Yale, and had a good chance to at least make the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, the troubles with the offense and goaltending were on full display and the Engineers were knocked out with a 1–4 defeat.
==Departures==
Justin Addamo 	Forward 		Graduation (signed with Wheeling Nailers)
Anthony Baxter 	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
Nick Bowman 	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Canisius
Zach Dubinsky 	Forward 		Transferred to Michigan State
Louis Helsen 	Defenseman		Left program (retired)
Jake Johnson 	Defenseman		Graduate transfer to Quinnipiac
Simon Kjellberg 	Defenseman		Transferred to Northern Michigan
Jakub Lacka 	Forward 		Graduation (signed with HK Nitra)
Ottoville Leppänen	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Merrimack
Ture Linden 	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Penn State
Linden Marshall 	Goaltender		Graduation (signed with Greenville Swamp Rabbits)
Shane Sellar 	Forward 		Graduation (signed with Reading Royals)
==Recruiting==
Nicolas Ardanaz 	Defenseman		20	Surrey, BC
Finn Brown 	Forward 		20	North York, ON
Brendan Budy 	Forward 		22	Langley, BC; transfer from North Dakota
Carson Cherepak 	Goaltender		19	Winnipeg, MB
Danny Ciccarello	Forward 		21	Kirkland, QC
John Evans 	Forward 		20	South Surrey, BC
Austin Heidemann	Forward 		23	Maple Grove, MN; transfer from Mercyhurst
Sutter Muzzatti 	Forward 		19	Okemos, MI
Max Smolinski 	Defenseman		19	Bloomfield Hills, MI
Nick Strom 	Defenseman		22	Dayton, MN; transfer from Western Michigan
==Roster==
As of August 29, 2022.
==Standings==
==Schedule and results==
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==Scoring statistics==
 	F 	31	15	7 	22 	6
 	C 	28	10	12 	22 	61
 	F 	35	7 	15 	22 	42
 	F 	34	10	10 	20 	6
 	LW 	35	7 	10 	17 	4
 	RW 	31	6 	10 	16 	4
 	D 	35	4 	11 	15 	31
 	D 	35	3 	11 	14 	16
 	D 	35	2 	11 	13 	14
 	D 	32	2 	10 	12 	24
 	F 	29	5 	3 	8 	6
 	C 	31	2 	6 	8 	4
 	D 	31	1 	6 	7 	39
 	F 	23	3 	3 	6 	2
 	D 	35	1 	5 	6 	6
 	LW 	30	0 	5 	5 	6
 	F 	20	2 	2 	4 	17
 	D 	20	0 	3 	3 	8
 	C/RW	16	2 	0 	2 	23
 	F 	24	1 	1 	2 	8
 	F 	21	1 	0 	1 	8
 	F 	16	0 	1 	1 	10
 	D/F 	21	0 	1 	1 	23
 	F 	2 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	6 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	10	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	30	0 	0 	0 	0
Total	 	 	84	143	227	383
==Goaltending statistics==
 	30	1695:02	13	15	1	87 	740	1	.895	3.08
 	7 	250:37 	0 	4 	0	13 	112	0	.896	3.11
 	6 	149:06 	1 	1 	0	9 	50 	0	.847	3.62
Empty Net	- 	19:56 	- 	- 	-	6 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	35	2114:41	14	20	1	115	902	1	.887	3.26
==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	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 	22 	23 	24 	25 	26 	27 (Final)
USCHO.com	NR 	- 	NR 	NR 	NR 	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 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR
Note: USCHO did not release a poll in weeks 1, 13, or 26.
==References==
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