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Returning Goals

The three fundamental aspects of a team�s ultimate success are goal scoring, defense, and goaltending. The percentages of returning goal scoring, returning defense, and returning minutes by goaltenders measure the amount of experience lost to graduation, defection to the pros, and any other losses of eligibility.

RetG, the percentage of goals scored last season by returning players divided by the production of all players, is a strictly offensive indicator:

Team Ret All RetG
Union 74 83 .892
Vermont 119 149 .800
Dartmouth 67 85 .788
St. Lawrence 94 145 .683
Princeton 53 78 .680
Colgate 86 136 .632
Brown 61 99 .616
Clarkson 92 152 .605
Harvard 68 111 .613
Cornell 70 139 .504
RPI 47 115 .409
Yale 31 80 .388