HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men's ice hockey team was picked ninth in the 2022-23 ECAC Hockey preseason poll as voted on by the league's head coaches.
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The Big Green finished eleventh in 2021-22, falling to RPI in the first round of the ECAC Hockey tournament.
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Dartmouth returns 20 players from the 2021-22 team, including their top three goal scorers,
Mark Gallant,
Sean Chisholm and
Braiden Dorfman, as well as the leader in assists,
Tanner Palocsik.
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COACHES POLL (FIRST PLACE VOTES)
- Quinnipiac – 118 (8)
- Harvard – 109 (4)
- Clarkson – 105
- Cornell – 90
- Colgate – 77
- RPI – 70
- St. Lawrence – 57
- Union – 45
- Dartmouth – 43
- Yale – 32
- Brown – 26
- Princeton – 20
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Dartmouth opens the season with an ECAC Hockey and Ivy League matchup at Harvard on Friday, October 29.