The 2024–25 Miami RedHawks men's ice hockey season was the 47th season of play for the program and the 12th in the NCHC. The RedHawks represented Miami University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, played their home games at the Steve Cady Arena and were coached by Anthony Noreen in his 1st season.
Season Miami had one of the worst seasons in the history of the team. Though Anthony Noreen was taking over a moribund program that had not had double-digit wins in six years, the RedHaws somehow got even worse. The combination of a new system for the entire team as well as a sizable number of new players caused the team to have one of the worst offenses in the nation. Only Northern Michigan, who were virtually fielding a completely new lineup, scored fewer goals than Miami, with the RedHawks averaging 1.85 goals per game. Compounding their problems was a very poor goaltending rotation where Bruno Brūveris, Ethan Dahlmeir and Brett Miller each allowed approximately 4 goals per game. All that being said, Miami did not have a terrible start with the club playing .500 hockey in the first month of the season. However, the team's three wins during that time all came against some of the lowest-ranked clubs in the nation. Once the RedHawks began their conference schedule, Miami wasn't able to win a single match. The closest the team came was a shootout loss with a floundering Minnesota Duluth near the end of the year after three previous overtime games had ended with losses.
Miami set records for futility, breaking records that they had set the year before in terms of fewest NCHC wins (0), fewest points in the standings (4) and fewest wins in program history (3). Additionally, due in part to conference expansion, Miami had the ignominious distinction of becoming the first NCHC team to not participate in the playoffs as the conference tournament no longer included all league members.
Departures Matthew Barbolini Forward Graduation (signed with Toronto Marlies) Jack Clement Defenseman Graduation (signed with Cincinnati Cyclones) Robby Drazner Defenseman Graduate transfer to Western Michigan P. J. Fletcher Forward Graduation (signed with Florida Everblades) Axel Kumlin Defenseman Transferred to Notre Dame Teddy Lagerback Forward Transferred to Stonehill Carter McPhail Goaltender Graduate transfer to Mercyhurst Logan Neaton Goaltender Graduation (signed with Norfolk Admirals) Albin Nilsson Forward Graduation (signed with Kalmar HC)
Recruiting Colby Ambrosio Forward 22 Welland, ON; graduate transfer from Boston College; selected 118th overall in 2020 Matt Choupani Forward 22 Montreal, QC; transfer from Northeastern Ethan Dahlmeir Goaltender 21 Lakeville, MN Nick Donato Defenseman 22 Chicago, IL; returned to program John Emmons Forward 20 Washington, MI Christophe Fillion Forward 24 Sherbrooke, QC; graduate transfer from Quinnipiac Teodor Forssander Forward 20 Gothenburg, SWE David Grosek Forward 21 Doylestown, PA Conner Hutchison Defenseman 24 Hicksville, NY; graduate transfer from Sacred Heart Brett Miller Goaltender 25 Northville, MI; graduate transfer from Rensselaer Casper Nässén Forward 20 Norrtälje, SWE; selected 214th overall in 2023 Brian Silver Forward 23 Lake Bluff, IL; graduate transfer from Augustana
Roster As of August 15, 2024.
Standings
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=";" | Regular Season
Scoring statistics C/RW 34 7 13 20 45 F 28 4 16 20 8 C 34 6 10 16 28 C 31 4 10 14 12 D 34 2 10 12 4 F 34 6 4 10 8 LW/RW 34 6 4 10 10 F 25 5 5 10 14 F 34 4 6 10 16 D 33 2 7 9 22 C 34 4 3 7 12 D 33 3 4 7 16 D 28 2 3 5 10 D 13 1 3 4 16 D/C 20 1 3 4 19 D 34 1 3 4 10 D 28 1 2 3 40 C/LW 9 2 0 2 4 C 32 1 1 2 24 C 23 0 2 2 20 F 21 1 0 1 29 LW 11 0 1 1 0 G 14 0 1 1 0 G 19 0 1 1 0 D 1 0 0 0 15 G 7 0 0 0 0 LW 11 0 0 0 0 D 13 0 0 0 21 RW 14 0 0 0 0 Bench – – – – – 14 Total 63 112 175 417 Source:
Goaltending statistics 7 347:28 0 5 0 23 152 0 .869 3.97 14 743:11 1 10 1 50 335 0 .865 4.04 19 955:38 2 13 2 66 426 0 .866 4.14 Empty Net - 17:45 - - - 4 - - - - Total 34 2064:02 3 28 3 143 913 0 .865 4.16
Rankings
PollWeekPre 1 23456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 (Final) USCHO.comNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NR USA HockeyNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR Note: USCHO did not release a poll in week 12 or 26.Note: USA Hockey did not release a poll in week 12.
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