Awards 2015-16 Season

Men's ECAC Weekly Awards. We got 3 "Honorable Mentions." 2 for the women.

Angello & Kubiak get "Honorable Mention". Woods does the same for the women.

Gillam named GOTW. Willcox & Vanderlaan nominated for the other two weekly awards.

Cam Hackett ECAC ROTW. Anyone know why he decommitted from Cornell?

EDIT: Says here it was because Cornell asked him to delay his arrival by a year: [www.withoutapeer.com]

BearLover
Cam Hackett ECAC ROTW. Anyone know why he decommitted from Cornell?

EDIT: Says here it was because Cornell asked him to delay his arrival by a year: [www.withoutapeer.com]

It sounds like he wound up starting at RPI exactly when Cornell would have wanted him to start at Cornell. He would have been part of this freshman class that is looking so promising right now.

andyw2100

BearLover
Cam Hackett ECAC ROTW. Anyone know why he decommitted from Cornell?

EDIT: Says here it was because Cornell asked him to delay his arrival by a year: [www.withoutapeer.com]

It sounds like he wound up starting at RPI exactly when Cornell would have wanted him to start at Cornell. He would have been part of this freshman class that is looking so promising right now.

If he had come when he had been planning, he probably would have ridden the bench for two, maybe three, years. Who wants to ride the bench for that long, if it can be avoided?

The 'Tute is a perfectly fine school. Rather he ended up there than, say, another school that should go ahead and leave for Hockey Least already (when Notre Dame inevitably jumps ship) but that will be looking for a starter after this season.

Not that it means a lot, but here's Ken Schotts' weekly awards.

Daily Gazette/ECACH Stars of the Week
Time for my stars of the week.

Player/Goalie of the Week — Mitch Gillam, Cornell

The junior goalie posted two shutouts over the weekend. Gillam made 30 saves in the scoreless tie against Yale, and stopped 27 shots in Saturday’s 1-0 win over Brown.

Rookie of the Week — Michael Laidley, St. Lawrence

The freshman left winger had a goal and an assist in the Saints’ 5-1 win over Princeton on Friday.

Team of the Week — Cornell
The Big Red post two road shutouts.

Gillam gets ECAC POTW and also HM for GOTW.

Jim Hyla
Gillam gets ECAC POTW and also HM for GOTW.

Um, if POTW includes position players and goalies, and is thus a higher honor than GOTY, which only includes goalies, then how can a POTY be an HM for GOTW, unless it means one cannot win both POTW and GOTW (and if that is the case, why would he be an HM?)?

BearLover

Jim Hyla
Gillam gets ECAC POTW and also HM for GOTW.

Um, if POTW includes position players and goalies, and is thus a higher honor than GOTY, which only includes goalies, then how can a POTY be an HM for GOTW, unless it means one cannot win both POTW and GOTW (and if that is the case, why would he be an HM?)?

FWIW, these weekly awards don't call them specifically "Honorable Mention," just "Other nominees." My assumption is that a player may win one and only one of these each week. And it's probably decided by some intern. (POTW > GOTW > ROTW?)

Jim Hyla
Gillam gets ECAC POTW and also HM a nomination for GOTW.

In addition to the league accolades, Gillam was also named the "#1 star" for the week by the NCAA:

[www.ncaa.com]

BearLover

Jim Hyla
Gillam gets ECAC POTW and also HM for GOTW.

Um, if POTW includes position players and goalies, and is thus a higher honor than GOTY, which only includes goalies, then how can a POTY be an HM for GOTW, unless it means one cannot win both POTW and GOTW (and if that is the case, why would he be an HM?)?

This has happened before. Freshman X gets "player of the week" and freshman Y gets "rookie of the week." What? They try to spread the awards around and they may even have an explicit rule that you can't win both the same week.

As RichH said, I'm sure the awards are chosen by whichever poor shlub intern is last out on a Monday or something. Dude could probably pick a non-existent player for a few weeks before anybody figured it out.

CU is CHN TOTW.

McCrea Named ECAC Hockey Men's Rookie of the Week. No HM this week.

Angello named to ATB's Mid-Season All-ECAC Rookie Team. Go to the third page.

The College Hockey News ECAC mid-year report also puts Angello on the All-ECAC Rookie team, and ranks Cornell second in the league in the Power Rankings.

Gillam gets GOTW, Angello ROTW for their performance vs. Merrimack. Kubiak was a "nominee" for POTW.

Hilbrich Named Senior CLASS Award Candidate

Morgan Richardson named a finalist for 2016 Hockey Humanitarian Award.

Gillam GOTW & Vanderlaan HM ROTW.

Jim Hyla
Gillam GOTW & Vanderlaan HM ROTW.

Gillam looks like a stand up comedian in that picture. Pritchard looks like a serial killer.

Trotsky

Jim Hyla
Gillam GOTW & Vanderlaan HM ROTW.

Gillam looks like a stand up comedian in that picture. Pritchard looks like a serial killer.

He's too good looking to be a comedian.

Hilbrich Named Senior CLASS Award Finalist

Gillam named NCAA's #3 "Star of the Week."

[www.ncaa.com]


Visiting that link, not only does Mitch look exactly like the #1 star from Denver, but the copy points out that he got six shutouts last weekend. Impressive.

RichH
Gillam named NCAA's #3 "Star of the Week."

[www.ncaa.com]


Visiting that link, not only does Mitch look exactly like the #1 star from Denver, but the copy points out that he got six shutouts last weekend. Impressive.

Those Denver sweaters are so beautiful.

RichH
the copy points out that [Gillam] got six shutouts last weekend. Impressive.

It's the system.

Gillam Earns Season's Fourth Goalie of the Week Honor

Voorheis Named ECAC Hockey Goaltender Of The Week

Along the Boards rates CU's freshmen class #1 in the ECAC.

Women’s Hockey Places Five On All-Ivy Teams

Gillam gets another GOTW.

ECAC Post-season Awards

Completely shut out.


FIRST TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Sam Anas, Quinnipiac
Forward Nick Lappin, Brown
Forward Jimmy Vesey, Harvard
Defense Gavin Bayreuther, St. Lawrence
Defense Rob O'Gara, Yale
Goaltender Alex Lyon, Yale

SECOND TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Kyle Criscuolo, Harvard
Forward Tim Clifton, Quinnipiac
Forward Travis St. Denis, Quinnipiac
Defense Eric Sweetman, St. Lawrence
Defense Devon Toews, Quinnipiac
Goaltender Jason Kasdorf, Rensselaer

THIRD TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Alexander Kerfoot, Harvard
Forward Tyson Spink, Colgate
Forward Mike Vecchione, Union
Defense James de Haas, Clarkson
Defense Paul Geiger, Clarkson
Goaltender Michael Garteig, Quinnipiac

ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
Forward Ryan Kuffner, Princeton
Forward Tommy Marchin, Brown
Forward Joe Snively, Yale
Defense Max Gottlieb, Brown
Defense Chase Priskie. Quinnipiac
Goaltender Cam Hackett, Rensselaer

POTY: Vesey
COTY: Pecknold
GOTY: Lyon
ROTY: Snively
DF: Carson Cooper, Yale
DD: O'Gara
Student Athlete: Criscuolo
Team Sportsmanship (?) : Yale

Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

billhoward
Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

I don't know and I'm too lazy to research it. But I can't imagine we had much of a showing in '93.

KeithK

billhoward
Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

I don't know and I'm too lazy to research it. But I can't imagine we had much of a showing in '93.

Looks like it was as recent as 2000-01, according to Wikipedia. There appears not to have been a Third Team until 2005-06. (You're right that we didn't have anyone in 1992-93, either.)

[en.wikipedia.org]

billhoward
Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

Does the fact that we still finished with a winning record and were on the cusp of making it to the NCAAs without a single ECAC all-star mean we were an over-achieving team this year?

dbilmes

billhoward
Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

Does the fact that we still finished with a winning record and were on the cusp of making it to the NCAAs without a single ECAC all-star mean we were an over-achieving team this year?

I'm trying to figure out how we got picked the best freshman class without anybody on the freshman team.

Trotsky

dbilmes

billhoward
Has this ever happened before - an All-ECAC hockey team (1st team, 2nd team, 3rd or HM; all-rookie) had no one from Cornell?

Does the fact that we still finished with a winning record and were on the cusp of making it to the NCAAs without a single ECAC all-star mean we were an over-achieving team this year?

I'm trying to figure out how we got picked the best freshman class without anybody on the freshman team.

It's the system. Etc.

Article, via USCHO, on Morgan Richardson, a finalist for Humanitarian award.