Marotte Named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year

3/19/2020 2:25:00 PM

After a stellar year in his first season of ECAC Hockey competition, Clarkson's Frank Marotte was named the conference's Ken Dryden Goaltender of the Year.

ECAC Hockey release

A graduate transfer from Robert Morris, Marotte was a workhorse all year long and backboned the Golden Knights to a second-place 16-5-1 league mark, their most ECAC Hockey victories since winning 18 in 1998-99. The Knights, who did not have the opportunity as the No. 2 seed in the league playoffs to see any postseason action, finished with a 23-8-3 overall record and the ninth spot in the NCAA Pairwise. Marotte played all but 44 minutes in the Clarkson crease.

Named a First-Team league all-star earlier in the week, Marotte started all 22 ECAC games and played the second most minutes (1,287:13) in conference action. Consistently good throughout the season, Marotte posted the second best save percentage (.940) and goals against average (1.63) in ECAC action en route to a 16-5-1 league record. Marotte shut out conference foes Union (2-0 on Jan. 14 with 19 saves), St. Lawrence (2-0 on Feb. 8 with 21 saves) and Dartmouth (4-0 on Feb. 22 with 27 saves). The Longueuil, Quebec native was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week three times (10/14, 11/25, 2/17) and was selected conference Goaltender of the Month for October.

Starting all 34 games overall, and playing eighth most minutes (2019:49) in the country, Marotte rated among the top goaltenders in the nation. The graduate transfer posted a .938 save percentage (4th), a 1.78 goals against average (4th), a .721 winning percentage (6th) on an 23-8-3 record and was tied for eighth in shutouts (4). He posted 12 games with 30-or-more saves, including a season-high 39 stops in 3-2 victory at 15th-ranked Quinnipiac in Hamden, CT on February 14.

Marotte, who starred at Robert Morris the previous three years posted a 73-52-11 career record.

Marotte joins David Leggio '08 as a Clarkson recipient of the ECAC Hockey Ken Dryden Goaltender of the Year Award, which was first presented in 1996.

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