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Can't argue with Colgate and Cornell ( Daniel is their one big loss) but I still think Gate is the team to beat despite losing Serdachny, Simpson, Bard, O'Donohoe and Osborne they have a bunch of terrific Frosh, Soph and Juniors at F, D and G. SLU still has Hustler back but loses Julia Gosling if she decides not to take a Covid 5th yr and Batherson on D. Do Segedi and McLeod take a Covid 5th year? ...
... Can't wait to see the ECAC in season 24-25.
It looks like 'Gate is losing 8 of their players. Dara Greig has also exhausted her eligibility, and Holk and Betinol have entered the transfer portal. I agree, though, that they have a lot of great returners. I think the departing players accounted for 218 points out of 515 total this year (42.3%), which is a large portion but still comes out of a high total. I also agree that I can't wait to see the 2024-25 ECAC!
Near the start of last season, I saw that a blog made a collection of stats showing ECAC seniors/graduating players from spring 2023:
ECAC seniors. Some of the teams with the biggest proportions of scoring by graduating players in 2022-23, Yale and Harvard, dropped the most in the standings this past season. Princeton also had a high proportion but still had Sarah Fillier, while Dartmouth, with much scoring by graduating players, didn't show much change. SLU, Clarkson, and Cornell, with players transferring in, all improved their records.
Inspired by this and replicating some of the work for this year, the point totals from players graduating or in the portal, approximately, are (without including incoming transfers or players who enter the portal later)-
1. Colgate - 218/515 points,
42.3%, Serdachny, Simpson, Bard, O'Donohoe, Osborne (starting G of 2), Holk, Betinol, and Greig [probably 8 outgoing players]
2. Clarkson - 140/359 points,
39.0%, Pasiechnyk (starting G), Guay, Lappan, Brooke McQuigge, Petrie, Frenette, Swiderski, Hull, and Ham [9]
3. SLU - 69/324 points,
21.3%, Eom, Hennessy, Lum, Jones, Batherson, Alvarez (backup G), and Bjorgan [7]
4. Cornell - 59/326 points,
18.1%, Fraser (G), Daniel, and Ruggiero [3]
5. Quinnipiac - 176/348 points,
50.6%, Reilly, Hoskin, Schryver, Nearis, Peart, Angers (starting G), Steigauf, Phillips, Mauracher, Bowlby, Bac, and Villeneuve [12]
6. Yale - 41/204 points,
20.1%, Hartje and Goode [2]
7. Princeton - 83/236 points,
35.2%, Monihan, Wallace, Annie Kuehl, Kerin, Fillier, Calabrese, and Kee [7]
8. Brown - 25/159 points,
15.7%, Piersiak, Shelden, Mangiafico, Carman, Gallagher, Williamson, Lacey, and Doyle (starting G) [8]
9. RPI - 44/216 points,
20.4%, Zahirnyi, Alexander, Hardy, Wagner, and Rampado (starting G) [5]
10. Dartmouth - 35/169 points,
20.7%, Robinson, Donohue, Hill, King, and Humphreys (G in 12 games in 2023-24) [5]
11. Union - 34/149 points,
22.8%, Ehmann, Walsh, and Killian [3]
12. Harvard - 10/101,
9.9%, O'Connor and Hollands [2]
Union and especially RPI, who like the Ivies didn't compete in 2020-21, have had good records with previous 2020-21 first-years with eligibility left returning as graduate students to play out their eligibility. So, I am not including seniors who aren't in the GopherPuckLive portal among the "losses" in players at those schools. Something to note is that Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, and Harvard play fewer games, and so their point totals are relatively lower. Nicole Gosling (Clarkson) and Julia Gosling (SLU) are among players eligible to return who'd greatly impact their teams assuming they do.
Quinnipiac seems to be losing the most players, though Colgate and Clarkson also could have to adapt with several leaders graduating. Cornell will be missing Daniel but will hope to have Katie Chan healed again, I would think. Teams graduating/transferring out starting goalies or goalies with many minutes include Colgate, Clarkson, Quinnipiac, RPI, and Dartmouth. Thanks for the overview from Neutral Zone, vicb; I don't subscribe to that, and I appreciate the summary. Sounds like a positive for Princeton, Yale, and Clarkson, at least.
