The 2021–22 St. Thomas Tommies men's ice hockey season was the 98th season of play for the program, the 1st in Division I and the 1st season in the CCHA conference. The Tommies represented the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and were coached by Enrico Blasi, in his 1st season.
Season St. Thomas began its first season at the Division I level knowing that it wasn't expected to compete with many of its new opponents. While the roster was full of transfers from other D-I programs, few had been high-level players. The Tommies began their season with a bad if unsurprising 2–12 loss to the defending national runner-up, St. Cloud State. The second game, even though it too was a loss, was a much closer affair and demonstrated that St. Thomas could at least rise to the level of play.
While the Tommies started the season 0–7, there were a few close games and the team finally broke through with its first D-I win in late October. After the victory, the St. Thomas offense went dormant for several months, only once scoring more than 2 goals until mid-January. The 15-game losing streak that resulted made it very difficult for St. Thomas to do anything but finish last in the CCHA standings.
The scoring picked up slightly in the later part of the season, and the Tommies were able to get two more wins before the season was out, but it was hardly a shock when St. Thomas was ranked as the worst team at the Division I level by season's end.
Departures Tucker Bender Defenseman Graduation (retired) Jackson Bond Forward Transferred to Hamline Chris Conway Defenseman Left program (retired) Lewis Crosby Forward Transferred to Saint John's Phil Fromberger Defenseman Graduation (retired) Will Graves Goaltender Left program (retired) Kyle Gudme Defenseman Left program (retired) Sam Huff Forward Left program (retired) Charlie Kiefer Defenseman Left program (retired) Ian Mageau Forward Left program (retired) Josh Maucieri Forward Transferred to Saint John's Austin Nault Forward Transferred to Marian Josh Norman Forward Transferred to Lake Forest Max Osborne Defenseman Transferred to Saint John's John Pesek Defenseman Left program (retired) Jake Peterson Defenseman Left program (retired) Luke Radetic Forward Left program (retired) Zac Risteau Forward Left program (retired) John Serafin Defenseman Transferred to Endicott Anthony Szurlej Defenseman Left program (retired) Jack Vincent Forward Left program (retired) Spencer Zwiener Forward Graduation (retired)
Recruiting Michael Ferrandino Defenseman 21 Lisle, IL Ethan Gauer Defenseman 21 Farmington, MN; transfer from Bemidji State Kyler Grundy Forward 21 Pleasant Prairie, WI Matthew Jennings Forward 24 Buford, GA; transfer from Ohio State Trevor LeDonne Defenseman 18 Stoney Creek, ON Tim Piechowski Forward 20 Eden Prairie, MN Cameron Recchi Forward 20 Pittsburgh, PA Sam Renlund Forward 21 Verona, WI; transfer from Colorado College Nolan Sawchuk Defenseman 23 Burnsville, MN; transfer from Massachusetts Lowell Paul Schmid Forward 21 Linz, AUT John Schuldt Defenseman 24 Minnetonka, MN; transfer from Omaha Peter Thome Goaltender 24 Minneapolis, MN; graduate transfer from North Dakota; selected 155th overall in 2016 Christiano Versich Forward 24 Saint Paul, MN; transfer from Colorado College Blaine Warnert Forward 21 Chaska, MN Trevor Zins Defenseman 21 St. Michael, MN; transfer from St. Cloud State
Roster As of September 9, 2021.
Standings
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=";" | Regular season
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |colspan=12|St. Thomas Lost Series 0–2
Scoring statistics RW 31 5 11 16 8 C 36 8 7 15 12 C 35 4 11 15 24 C/LW 35 5 8 13 14 F 31 7 5 12 14 C 35 7 5 12 18 D 35 3 8 11 18 RW 32 5 5 10 8 D 36 1 9 10 10 F 24 3 6 9 2 D 23 2 6 8 12 D 32 2 5 7 26 F 26 2 1 3 8 F 7 1 2 3 10 F 13 1 2 3 4 D 27 1 2 3 26 D 32 1 2 3 51 F 33 1 2 3 10 F 34 2 0 2 43 F 9 0 2 2 2 F 18 0 1 1 2 D 21 0 1 1 22 F 25 0 1 1 11 D 26 0 1 1 0 G 2 0 0 0 0 D 13 0 0 0 8 G 17 0 0 0 0 G 29 0 0 0 0 Bench - - - - - 2 Total 61 101 162 367
Goaltending statistics 2 3:13 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0.00 17 644 0 8 0 44 293 0 .869 4.10 29 1522 3 24 1 115 811 0 .876 4.53 Empty Net - 18 - - - 9 - - - - Total 36 2168 3 32 1 168 1107 0 .868 4.65
Rankings
PollWeekPre12345678910111213141516171819202122232425 (Final) USCHO.comNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR-NR USA TodayNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR Note: USCHO did not release a poll in week 24.
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