The 2016–17 Arizona State Sun Devils men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program at the Division I level. The Sun Devils represented Arizona State University and were coached by Greg Powers, in his 8th season.
Season For the program's second varsity season, the team began by running a gauntlet of ranked teams. As a result, Arizona State's record was very poor to start the season. After a small reprieve in the middle of the year the team ran through another slate of ranked programs to end the season, however, the early-season difficulties appeared to have helped because the Sun Devils were able to win one and tie two matches against such opponents. Because of the team's recent entry into Division I, Arizona State had a difficult time scheduling games at the end of the year and were forced to play a series against a Division II program (Southern New Hampshire) and end the season with two weekends against non-NCAA teams.
Greg Powers did bring in the program's first big recruit in Joey Daccord and, though he did not help much in his freshman season, he would provide a massive boon to the Sun Devils in the near future.
Departures Michael Cummings Forward Returned to club team Cody Gylling Forward Retired David Jacobson Goaltender Transferred to SUNY Oswego Matt Kennedy Forward Transferred to Wentworth Brock Krygier Defenseman Graduation (Retired) Sean Murphy Forward Returned to club team Liam Norris Forward Graduation (Retired) Ryan Ostertag Forward Returned to club team Garrett Peterson Forward Graduation (Retired) Eric Rivard Forward Retired Connor Schmidt Defenseman Transferred to Utica Ryan Stevens Forward Transferred to Plymouth State Charlie Zuccarini Forward Transferred to Trinity
Recruiting Robert Baillargeon Forward 23 Enfield, CT; graduate transfer from Boston University Tyler Busch Forward 20 Lloydminster, AB Joey Daccord Goaltender 20 North Andover, MA; selected 199th overall in the 2015 NHL entry draft Georgi Gorodetsky Forward 21 Yekaterinburg, RUS Brett Gruber Forward 20 Appleton, WI Jake Montgomery Forward 22 Oakdale, MN; transfer from Omaha Wade Murphy Forward 23 Victoria, BC; transfer from North Dakota Brinson Pasichnuk Defenseman 18 Bonnyville, AB Steenn Pasichnuk Forward 21 Bonnyville, AB Riley Simpson Forward 20 Edmonton, AB Jakob Stridsberg Defenseman 21 Jönköping, SWE
Roster
As of March 20, 2017.
Standings
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=";" | Regular season
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!colspan=12 style=";" | Exhibition
Scoring Statistics F 32 10 11 21 26 C 28 9 12 21 34 RW 31 9 11 20 30 C 32 9 11 20 58 F 32 7 10 17 28 LW 32 5 12 17 8 D 32 9 7 16 18 D 31 7 7 14 38 C 32 5 9 14 12 F 22 3 9 12 8 D 24 4 5 9 20 RW 24 2 5 7 24 D 21 1 6 7 16 RW/C 26 1 6 7 8 D 27 0 7 7 28 F 25 3 3 6 10 F 19 4 1 5 16 D 19 0 5 5 0 RW 8 2 2 4 16 D 16 0 4 4 27 LW 11 0 3 3 4 LW 19 0 2 2 29 RW/C 10 1 0 1 8 G 11 0 0 0 0 G 13 0 0 0 0 G 15 0 0 0 0 D 23 0 0 0 49 Bench - - - - - 10 Total 91 148 239 525
Goaltending statistics 13 705 5 5 2 39 343 1 .898 3.32 15 729 3 8 1 49 404 0 .892 4.03 11 491 2 6 0 38 278 0 .880 4.64 Empty Net - 9 - - - 4 - - - - Total 32 1935 10 19 3 130 1025 1 .887 4.03
Rankings
PollWeekPre123456789101112131415161718192021222324 (Final) USCHO.comNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NR USA TodayNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR *USCHO did not release a poll in week 23.
Players drafted into the NHL 2017 NHL entry draft No Arizona State players were selected in the NHL draft.
References