The team saw marginal improvements after the winter break and went through a stretch of 5 games without a regulation loss.

While the offense did score more often, the biggest factor in those wins was substituting in Luke Pearson as the team's starting goaltender.

The sophomore received the lion's share of minutes in the second half of the season and helped Yale climb out of the conference cellar.

Though the offense was paltry, averaging less than 2 goals a game for the season, Yale finished 10th in the ECAC and were set against a mediocre Rensselaer squad for the first round of the postseason.

[2] The Elis performed much better in the rematch, managing to score 2 goals, but were swept out of the postseasonby their supposed rivals.