ECACHL Awards - Cornell Garners Player & Coach of the Year!

ECACHL Awards
Defensive Forward of the Year - Tom Cavanagh, Harvard
Defensive Defenseman of the Year - Jaime Sifers, Vermont
Rookie of the Year - Joe Fallon, Vermont
Coach of the Year - Mike Schafer, Cornell
Dryden Award - David McKee, Cornell
Player of the Year - David McKee, Cornell

All-ECAC First Team
F Matt Moulson, Cornell
F Lee Stempniak, Dartmouth
F T.J. Trevelyan, St. Lawrence
D Luc Paquin, Princeton
D Noah Welch, Harvard
G David McKee, Cornell

All-ECAC Second Team
F Tom Cavanagh, Harvard
F Scott Mifsud, Vermont
F Dustin Sproat, Princeton
D Charlie Cook, Cornell
D Jaime Sifers, Vermont
G Dov Grumet-Morris, Harvard

All-Rookie Team
F Tyler Burton, Colgate
F Nick Johnson, Dartmouth
F Torrey Mitchell, Vermont
D Sean Hurley, Brown
D Sasha Pokulok, Cornell
G Joe Fallon, Vermont

Tells you something when the Defensive Defenseman is second team.

Very interesting that Schafer won the COY award over Sneddon. Add in Mifsud being second team and the ECAC just added even more turpentine to the fire for tomorrows games. The Vermont fans are gonna be pissed.

Definitely more pleasent surprises than disappointments.

I'm quite surprised Schafer over Sneddon. I'm quite pleased that The Hack wasn't handed Defensive Defenseman. And I'm glad to see McKee getting two huge awards as a sophomore. I thought the Dryden would've been a big toss-up, given the history of rewarding seniority (damn you, Oli Jonas!). Really happy to see Sasha on the all-rookie team.

Only three non-ivy players on the 1st and 2nd teams.

Neither defensive award went to the team with the record-setting defense. But I'm happy to say that it was more due to a full-team effort than any individual.

All-in-all, I'm satisfied.

[Q]atb9 Wrote:

Very interesting that Schafer won the COY award over Sneddon. Add in Mifsud being second team and the ECAC just added even more turpentine to the fire for tomorrows games. The Vermont fans are gonna be pissed.[/q]
they might a little upset when they see the second coming of the SLU(t) sign from '01

Burton got robbed.

As a Red fan, I'm glad to see Cavanaugh graduate much the same way I was happy to see Dom Moore graduate, but was Cavanaugh really the best defensive forward in the league this year? That's my only real question about the awards. I was hoping for Iggy.

I guess Iggulden's four short handed goals weren't enough. Maybe the voters weren't impressed with the fact that he centered a line that went up against opposing team's top lines every single game this season. I really don't care about awards and generally think they are meaningless, but the principle of the matter is that Iggulden should have won it hands down. As for Cavanaugh, he plays on an offensive line that doesn't see opposing team's top lines. Not sure why he was even considered.

[Q]RichH Wrote:I thought the Dryden would've been a big toss-up, given the history of rewarding seniority (damn you, Oli Jonas!).[/q]That was totally payback for Underhill, but Clarkson still has a legit gripe, because Mike Walsh probably has an even better claim to the 2001 Dryden.

At first glance I was surprised about Schafer over Sneddon too. But it got me thining. I wonder if there was a concious or subconcious effort to *not* give the award to the coach of a team that is leaving the league. The fact that Vermont had a couple of players get award doesn't necessarily argue against this, because it wasn't the players who made the move to HE happen. Not saying that this is the case, but it does seem possible.