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Colgate hopes to get leadership from Spiro Goulakos (photo: Melissa Wade).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are some steep expectations facing Colgate this season, and it’s hard to argue that those elite standards should be even moderately diminished.<\/p>\n

To the point, Colgate finished (an albeit distant) second in ECAC Hockey last season and lost just two players from a team that lost a soul-crushing 1-0 first-round decision against Ferris State in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n

The Raiders return 94 percent of their 2013-14 goals (graduating seven of 108) and 96 percent of their total offensive production. Of the two players to graduate, one was goaltender Eric Mihalik (10 starts last season); the other was 37-game, seven-goal forward Mike McCann — the 10th-highest scorer on the team.<\/p>\n

“We anticipated this might happen,” coach Don Vaughan said of the sky-high speculations, citing a similar situation entering the 2006-07 season. That fall, the Raiders also were coming off a strong second-place finish. By March of 2007, Colgate was 7-12-3 in league play and in eighth place.<\/p>\n

In case younger observers need a more recent comparison to table premature parade plans, just look to last year’s Rensselaer Engineers: A persuasive second-place 2012-13 campaign and a boatload of returning talent sputtered to an 8-9-5, seventh-place 2013-14 finish following the early season-ending injury of starting goalie Jason Kasdorf.<\/p>\n

That said, there are few reasons to doubt Colgate’s capabilities entering this season.<\/p>\n

“I feel good,” Vaughan said. “We’re healthy, the guys have a great attitude, they’re working hard, and we have great leadership.”<\/p>\n

Senior co-captains Joe Wilson and Spiro Goulakos have faced their share of struggles, especially Goulakos’ well-documented battle with — and recovery from — Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Wilson has averaged 38 games in each of his first three seasons; Goulakos — who sat out a year with a medical redshirt — averaged 32 appearances over his first three full seasons.<\/p>\n

“He has been through so much, and we’ve been through so much with him,” Vaughan said of Goulakos.<\/p>\n

“This year, he’s finally healthy,” he added, with a healthy and productive summer of training behind him.<\/p>\n

In net, upcoming sophomore Charlie Finn will have a tough time improving on last year’s 2.35 GAA and .918 save percentage, but if he could handle 29 appearances as a rookie, the sky may be the limit.<\/p>\n

By the way, of Colgate’s top five scorers last season, all of them — twins Tyson and Tylor Spink, Darcy Murphy, Mike Borkowski and Kyle Baun — are juniors this year. Let that one sink in.<\/p>\n

About the Raiders<\/h4>\n

2013-14 overall record:<\/b> 20-14-5<\/p>\n

2013-14 ECAC Hockey record:<\/b> 13-6-3 (second)<\/p>\n

2014-15 predicted finish:<\/b> First in both the coaches and media polls<\/p>\n

Key losses:<\/b> G Eric Mihalik<\/p>\n

Players to watch:<\/b> D Spiro Goulakos, F Darcy Murphy, F Tylor Spink, F Tyson Spink<\/p>\n

Impact rookies:<\/b> F Mike Panowyk<\/p>\n

Why the Raiders will finish higher than predicted:<\/b> Can’t get much better than first place, but if the Raiders hope to make a deep run on a national scale, the defense and goaltending will have to elevate from “great” to “exceptional.”<\/p>\n

Why the Raiders will finish lower than predicted:<\/b> Did too many players overachieve last season? It’s either that or injuries that would most probably scuttle Colgate’s dream season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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