TEMPE – The curtain closes on the Arizona State ice hockey season this weekend as the Sun Devils (16-21-0) host the Long Island Sharks (13-20-1) for a two-game series on March 10-11. Both games start at 7 p.m. and air on the ASU Live Stream and Fox Sports 910. On Saturday night, the team celebrates seven seniors on Senior Night on the ice before the puck drop.
Alternate captains Demetrios Koumontzis and Jacob Semik, Jack Judson, Ben Kraws, Robert Mastrosimone, Tanner Hickey, and Chris Grando will be honored with their families at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday night. The seniors combined for 801 NCAA games played.
THE MATCHUP
Similarly last season, the ASU finished its season with a series against Long Island. Last time, the Sun Devils made the Sharks their bait, securing 2-1 and 5-1 victories that also capped off ASU's tenure at Oceanside Ice Arena.
This time around, ASU boasts the fourth-best penalty kill unit in the country which operates at an 86 percent success rate. The matchup should pair with the Sharks' power play, which ranks 14th in the NCAA at 23 percent. LIU is 3-10-0 on the road this season, only collecting wins at Stonehill, Princeton, and Assumption.
SENIOR CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Robert Mastrosimone
Alternate captains Demetrios Koumontzis and Jacob Semik, Jack Judson, Ben Kraws, Robert Mastrosimone, Tanner Hickey, and Chris Grando will be honored with their families at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday night. The seniors combined for 801 NCAA games played.
THE MATCHUP
Similarly last season, the ASU finished its season with a series against Long Island. Last time, the Sun Devils made the Sharks their bait, securing 2-1 and 5-1 victories that also capped off ASU's tenure at Oceanside Ice Arena.
This time around, ASU boasts the fourth-best penalty kill unit in the country which operates at an 86 percent success rate. The matchup should pair with the Sharks' power play, which ranks 14th in the NCAA at 23 percent. LIU is 3-10-0 on the road this season, only collecting wins at Stonehill, Princeton, and Assumption.
SENIOR CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Robert Mastrosimone
- Led the Arizona State team in nearly all statistical categories for the entire year.
- 36 games played he finishes his ASU career with 10 goals and 29 assists for 39 total points.
- Scored the game-winning goals in ASU's biggest wins this season against No. 6 North Dakota and No. 2 Minnesota.
- Played 118 career games between Boston University and ASU and graduates as a Sun Devil with a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies
- Made 25 starts in 31 appearances.
- Collected his first collegiate shutout last weekend against Alaska Anchorage as he backstopped ASU to a 5-0 victory.
- Boasts a 13-11-1 record with a .908 save percentage after more than 1500 minutes played.
- Graduates from Arizona State University this May with a Bachelor of Science in Finance (BS) and as the program's first-ever Barrett, The Honors College student-athlete
- Played 38 games for ASU, but finishes his NCAA career with 68 games, four goals, and 11 assists for 15 points.
- A warrior on and off the ice, Hickey is in the running for the team's Iron Man Award year after year.
- Graduates in May from ASU with a Bachelor of Science in Communication (BS).
- Finishes his collegiate hockey career after five seasons between Boston College and Arizona State. Across both teams, Grando's played a team-high 164 NCAA games from 2017 to 2023
- Tallied 26 goals and 36 assists for 62 points.
- Played for the Sun Devils for three seasons, reaching 90 games in the maroon and gold.
- Earned two degrees from ASU: a Bachelor of Science in Communications with a business minor and a Master's of Legal Studies from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
- Completes his college career as a true Sun Devil, with all four years playing in Tempe.
- Laced up in 126 collegiate games, notching 10 goals and 34 assists for 44 points.
- Played his best statistical season during his senior year where he outpaced all of his past seasons in nearly every statistical category.
- He is the team's second-leading scorer amongst defensemen this season with 16 points through 36 games.
- Graduates from ASU with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BS).
- One season as an alternate captain (2022-23)
- Played four seasons with Arizona State, missing only two games in his entire career to finish with 132 games played.
- Made 171 blocks and tallied three goals, and 24 assists for 27 total points.
- Throughout his career, he won Rookie of the Year and the Best Teammate Award.
- The longest-tenured Sun Devil forward turned defenseman, and alternate captain Demetrios Koumontzis is one of only a handful of skaters to play five total years at Arizona State.
- Played the second-most career ASU games in program history at 140.
- Tallied 22 goals, 44 assists, and 66 total points - all category marks that land him in the top 10 in ASU's record book categories.
- He finishes his half-decade at ASU with two degrees including a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a Master's of Legal Studies from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.