2023–24 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season

The 2023–24 Princeton Tigers Men's ice hockey season was the 121st season of play for the program and the 62nd in ECAC Hockey. The Tigers represented Princeton University, played their home games at the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink and were coached by Ron Fogarty in his 9th season.
==Season==
Princeton had a decent start to its season, seeing consistent scoring in the first three weeks. With a winning record as they approached Thanksgiving, which included a win over a ranked Cornell squad, the Tigers looked better than they had in years. The only apparent issue at this time was in goal as the team had already started three separate netminders with none of them playing particularly well. By December, Arthur Smith assumed the lead role but that was as much a function of how poorly Ethan Pearson had played as anything else.
When the Tigers began the second half of their season, they had a winning record but had played mostly subpar teams. Their record was set to be tested as they would play five consecutive games against ranked opponents. Unfortunately for Princeton, they did not fare well. The offense struggled to score, averaging less than two goals per in that stretch, while the defense collapsed. The Tigers' goal crease came under siege, seeing at least 35 shots in four of those matches and the inadequate goaltending was fully exposed. Even after the team passed through the gauntlet, the goals against continued to mount; Princeton allowed at least 3 goals in every game for a month and a half. Though the offense recovered slightly once they started playing weaker opponents once more, the Tigers still went 2–9 in that stretch and tumbled down the conference standings. By the end of February the team had not only abandoned any hope of earning a bye into the quarterfinal round but they were barely clinging onto a home game in the first round. Ending the year with two losses knocked them down to 9th and forced them to travel to Boston for their playoff opener.
Princeton largely outplayed Harvard in the match, outshooting the Crimson by 21 while taking only a single penalty. Unfortunately, the Tigers picked the worst time to stop scoring and the single goal allowed by Smith was all that Harvard needed to end the Tigers' season.
After getting knocked out of the postseason, Princeton's athletic director, John Mack, announced that Ron Fogarty would not be returning as head coach.
==Departures==
Benjamin Crewe 	Goaltender		Returned to club team
Liam Gorman 	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Massachusetts
Matthew Hayami 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Spencer Kersten	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Bowling Green
Aidan Porter 	Goaltender		Graduation (retired)
Pito Walton 	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
==Recruiting==
Carson Buydens 	Forward 		19	Gladstone, MB
Conor Callaghan	Goaltender		20	Upper Saddle River, NJ
Kai Daniells 	Forward 		20	Whistler, BC
Ian Devlin 	Defenseman		21	Memphis, TN
Josh Karnish 	Forward 		20	Marlton, NJ
Arthur Smith 	Goaltender		19	Farmington, CT
Michael Young 	Forward 		21	Kings Park, NY
==Roster==
As of August 2, 2023.
==Standings==
==Schedule and results==
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==Scoring statistics==
 	F 	30	11	18 	29 	8
 	C 	29	7 	17 	24 	19
 	RW 	30	7 	17 	24 	18
 	C/RW	25	11	12 	23 	10
 	F 	30	5 	18 	23 	14
 	RW 	26	11	8 	19 	8
 	F 	30	8 	11 	19 	14
 	D 	29	3 	15 	18 	6
 	D 	27	5 	12 	17 	26
 	D 	30	4 	9 	13 	22
 	F 	15	4 	3 	7 	4
 	D 	30	2 	3 	5 	47
 	C/LW	27	3 	1 	4 	28
 	F 	30	2 	2 	4 	6
 	RW 	30	0 	4 	4 	19
 	C 	22	2 	1 	3 	12
 	D 	22	2 	0 	2 	6
 	F 	7 	1 	1 	2 	2
 	F 	17	1 	0 	1 	4
 	D 	12	0 	1 	1 	8
 	F 	14	0 	1 	1 	2
 	G 	15	0 	1 	1 	0
 	D 	25	0 	1 	1 	8
 	F 	27	0 	0 	0 	2
 	G 	20	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	5 	0 	0 	0 	0
Total	 	 	89	156	245	293
==Goaltending statistics==
 	21	971:21 	7 	7 	2	48 	426	1	.899	2.96
 	15	726:35 	2 	8 	2	49 	288	0	.855	4.05
 	7 	119:37 	1 	1 	0	10 	58 	0	.853	5.02
Empty Net	- 	23:07 	- 	- 	-	7 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	30	1840:40	10	16	4	114	772	1	.870	3.72
==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 (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 	
Note: USCHO did not release a poll in weeks 11 and 25.Note: USA Today did not release a poll in week 12.
==References==
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Category:2023–24 ECAC Hockey men's season
Category:2023–24 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey by team