2021–22 Bentley Falcons men's ice hockey season

The 2021–22 Bentley Falcons men's ice hockey season was the 45th season of play for the program, the 23rd at the Division I level, and the 19th season in the Atlantic Hockey conference. The Falcons represented Bentley University and were coached by Ryan Soderquist, in his 20th season.
==Season==
Bentley began its season in very good standing, defeating both Ohio State and Boston College in the first few weeks of the season. The Falcons cooled off a bit afterwards but still managed to win a few games as they tried to start out their goaltending situation. They began the year with Nicholas Grabko in goal but he never seemed to be able to put a string of good performances together. Unfortunately, the two other options (Evan Debrouwer and Jason Grande) didn't play any better.
In mid-November, Debrouwer got his second shot as the starter and made the most of his opportunity, winning five games in a row to put Bentley near the top of the Atlantic Hockey standings by the mid point of the season.
After the winter break, Bentley had to reschedule several games around an uptick in COVID-19 positive tests that were affecting all of college hockey but seemed to get out of the trouble by the end of January. That was only the beginning of their trouble, however, as goaltending issues sent the Falcons careening towards the bottom of the conference. Debrouwer was never able to regain the form he had shown in November and December and allowed fewer than 3 goals in just two of his next nine games. Neither Grabko nor Grande could provide better support for the team in goal and Bentley ended up stumbling towards the finish. Even when their goaltenders were able to limit teams to just a few goals, the Falcons' offense went missing and Bentley finished the regular season with and 11-game winless streak.
They opened the postseason on the road against Niagara and completely reversed course, winning two matches to both end their streak and move onto the conference quarterfinals. The team's low position, however, sent them into a match with top-seeded American International and the Falcons were routed in back-to-back games.
==Departures==
Christian Felton	Defenseman		Transferred to Merrimack
Will Garin 	Forward 		Left program (retired)
Charlie Marchand	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
Jakov Novak 	Forward 		Transferred to Northeastern
Zach Pellegrino 	Forward 		Transferred to Albertus Magnus
Luke Santerno 	Forward 		Graduate transfer to Clarkson
Devon Tongue 	Forward 		Transferred to Trinity
==Recruiting==
Cooper Connell 	Forward 		20	West Vancouver, BC
Evan Debrouwer 	Goaltender		24	Blenheim, ON; transfer from Arizona State
Tucker Hodgson 	Defenseman		20	Grand Forks, ND
Phil Knies 	Forward 		23	Bratislava, SVK; graduate transfer from Miami
Eric Linell 	Forward 		23	Great Neck, NY; transfer from Connecticut
Tanner Main 	Defenseman		21	Welland, ON
Danny Pearson 	Forward 		21	West Vancouver, BC
Collin Rutherford	Forward 		23	Tonawanda, NY; graduate transfer from Dartmouth
Kohei Sato 	Forward 		24	Nishitōkyō, JPN; graduate transfer from New Hampshire
Harrison Scott 	Forward 		21	San Jose, CA
==Roster==
As of August 23, 2021.
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==Standings==
==Schedule and results==
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!colspan=12 style=";" | Regular Season
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
|colspan=12|Bentley Won Series 2–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
|colspan=12|Bentley Lost Series 0–2
==Scoring statistics==
 	D 	36	9 	18 	27 	26
 	LW 	33	10	13 	23 	10
 	C 	32	7 	16 	23 	6
 	F 	35	7 	13 	20 	29
 	D 	35	10	9 	19 	62
 	C 	34	7 	10 	17 	2
 	F 	34	5 	10 	15 	84
 	F 	27	6 	6 	12 	17
 	D 	26	5 	7 	12 	24
 	LW 	31	5 	7 	12 	26
 	F 	33	4 	7 	11 	22
 	F 	35	4 	7 	11 	14
 	C/LW	10	2 	6 	8 	2
 	F 	22	3 	4 	7 	2
 	F 	18	1 	6 	7 	6
 	D 	34	0 	6 	6 	4
 	RW 	34	4 	1 	5 	8
 	D 	32	1 	4 	5 	14
 	F 	31	0 	5 	5 	6
 	D 	36	2 	2 	4 	45
 	F 	19	2 	0 	2 	2
 	F 	6 	0 	1 	1 	2
 	D 	9 	0 	1 	1 	8
 	C 	11	0 	1 	1 	0
 	G 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	6 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	12	0 	0 	0 	10
 	G 	13	0 	0 	0 	4
 	D 	16	0 	0 	0 	10
 	G 	20	0 	0 	0 	0
Total	 	 	94	160	254	455
==Goaltending statistics==
 	20	1139	9 	9 	1	52 	512 	1	.908	2.74
 	13	698 	3 	9 	1	39 	337 	0	.896	3.35
 	6 	267 	2 	1 	0	15 	132 	0	.898	3.37
 	1 	60 	0 	1 	0	5 	30 	0	.857	5.00
Empty Net	- 	18 	- 	- 	-	6 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	36	2183	14	20	2	117	1011	1	.896	3.22
==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
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 (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 week 24.
==References==
2021–22
Category:2021–22 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey season
Category:2021–22 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey by team