2022–23 Bentley Falcons men's ice hockey season

The 2022–23 Bentley Falcons men's ice hockey season was the 46th season of play for the program, the 24th at the Division I level, and the 20th in the Atlantic Hockey conference. The Falcons represented Bentley University and were coached by Ryan Soderquist, in his 21st season.
==Season==
With more than half of the players from the previous season's team departing, coach Soderquist had his work cut out for him. The new lineup displayed some obvious deficiencies early in the year, both on the offense and defense. The result was a rather poor record and a last-place position in the conference standings. Once the team returned from the winter break, they seemed to have built some amount of chemistry and produced a surprising upset over Northeastern.
The Falcons were much better in the second half of the season and nearly posted a .500 record in 2023. Towards the end of the season they were able to produce wins over both American International and RIT, the top two teams in the conference. One of the big keys to this was the emergence of Connor Hasley as the team's starting goaltender. Unfortunately, because of both their bad start and the fact that Atlantic Hockey had altered its playoff format for this season to eliminate the First Round, Bentley's 9th-place finish left them out of the bracket and without a single playoff game.
==Departures==
Drew Bavaro 	Defenseman		Transferred to Notre Dame
Matt Clark 	Defenseman		Left program (retired)
Evan Debrouwer 	Goaltender		Graduation (retired)
Jason Grande 	Goaltender		Transferred to Holy Cross
Brendan Hamblet 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Fraser Kirk 	Goaltender		Graduation (retired)
Phil Knies 	Forward 		Graduation (signed with HK Nitra)
Matt Lombardozzi 	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
Luke Orysiuk 	Defenseman		Graduation (signed with Trois-Rivières Lions)
Ethan Roswell 	Defenseman		Graduation (signed with Corsaires de Dunkerque)
Collin Rutherford	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Kohei Sato 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Will Schlagenhauf	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
A. J. Villella 	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
Brendan Walkom 	Forward 		Graduation (signed with Bees IHC)
Michael Zuffante 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
==Recruiting==
Seth Bernard-Docker	Defenseman		20	Canmore, AB
Nick Bochen 	Defenseman		22	North Vancouver, BC; transfer from Quinnipiac
Stevie Castagna 	Forward 		21	North Vancouver, BC
Connor Hasley 	Goaltender		21	North Tonawanda, NY
Josh Latta 	Forward 		24	West Vancouver, BC; transfer from Massachusetts Lowell
Pat Lawn 	Defenseman		21	Waltham, MA
Ethan Leyh 	Forward 		21	Anmore, BC; transfer from Quinnipiac
Arlo Merritt 	Forward 		21	Halifax, NS
Ryan Nause 	Defenseman		21	Riverview, NB
Nicholas Niemo 	Forward 		21	Middlebury, VT
Jordan Schulting 	Defenseman		23	Penticton, BC; transfer from Massachusetts Lowell
Joshua Seeley 	Goaltender		21	Trenton, MI
Ryan Upson 	Forward 		21	West Vancouver, BC
==Roster==
As of June 30, 2022.
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==Standings==
==Schedule and results==
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==Scoring statistics==
 	F 	32	8 	14 	22 	33
 	D 	34	5 	15 	20 	14
 	F 	32	4 	16 	20 	65
 	LW	34	7 	9 	16 	12
 	C 	33	2 	14 	16 	10
 	F 	32	8 	7 	15 	30
 	F 	33	7 	8 	15 	20
 	F 	33	9 	5 	14 	16
 	C 	28	5 	7 	12 	12
 	F 	27	3 	6 	9 	16
 	F 	22	5 	2 	7 	4
 	D 	24	2 	5 	7 	20
 	C 	30	2 	5 	7 	4
 	D 	20	1 	6 	7 	22
 	F 	20	3 	3 	6 	2
 	D 	26	2 	3 	5 	6
 	D 	29	2 	2 	4 	16
 	D 	24	0 	4 	4 	8
 	D 	15	0 	4 	4 	2
 	RW	25	1 	2 	3 	6
 	D 	33	1 	2 	3 	35
 	LW	13	1 	1 	2 	19
 	D 	22	1 	1 	2 	10
 	F 	14	1 	1 	2 	4
 	F 	10	1 	0 	1 	4
 	G 	16	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	20	0 	0 	0 	0
Bench	 	- 	- 	- 	- 	16
Total	 	 	81	142	223	406
==Goaltending statistics==
 	20	1100:07	6 	10	2	54 	544	1	.910	2.95
 	16	909:33 	5 	11	0	56 	428	0	.884	3.69
 	1 	27:59 	0 	0 	0	4 	19 	0	.826	8.58
Empty Net	- 	16:39 	- 	- 	-	10 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	36	2054:18	11	21	2	124	991	1	.889	3.62
==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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