Post-Season Awards

[Jim Hyla]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

And here's the ECAC Press release courtesy of IJ's Dan Sweeney.

If I get time (not till this eve.) I'll try and post all other awards and candidates.

No time yet, but here's Vermeulen as Best Defensive Forward

Justin Krueger named Best Defensive Defenseman

[Josh '99]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

The final voting results for the award were not released by the league. However, it could not have been unanimous because Leaman could not vote for himself, plus the league disclosed that St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh, Colgate's Don Vaughan and Yale's Keith Allain all received votes.

Hmm, the coaches of all of the top five teams in the final ECAC standings, except for one of them.  :-|

[Chris '03]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

The final voting results for the award were not released by the league. However, it could not have been unanimous because Leaman could not vote for himself, plus the league disclosed that St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh, Colgate's Don Vaughan and Yale's Keith Allain all received votes.

Hmm, the coaches of all of the top five teams in the final ECAC standings, except for one of them.  :-|

Schafer's not a good coach. It's the system.

[nyc94]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

The final voting results for the award were not released by the league. However, it could not have been unanimous because Leaman could not vote for himself, plus the league disclosed that St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh, Colgate's Don Vaughan and Yale's Keith Allain all received votes.

Hmm, the coaches of all of the top five teams in the final ECAC standings, except for one of them.  :-|

Doesn't Coach of the Year in most sports go to a team that exceeded expectations?  Union was picked sixth in both the media and coaches preseason polls and finished third.  St. Lawrence was seven in the media poll and 10 in the coaches poll and finished fifth.  Colgate was 9th and 7th and finished fourth.  Yale and Cornell were picked to go 1-2 in both polls.  I am not surprised that Schafer didn't receive votes and am surprised Allain did.

[ugarte]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

The final voting results for the award were not released by the league. However, it could not have been unanimous because Leaman could not vote for himself, plus the league disclosed that St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh, Colgate's Don Vaughan and Yale's Keith Allain all received votes.

Hmm, the coaches of all of the top five teams in the final ECAC standings, except for one of them.  :-|

Doesn't Coach of the Year in most sports go to a team that exceeded expectations?  Union was picked sixth in both the media and coaches preseason polls and finished third.  St. Lawrence was seven in the media poll and 10 in the coaches poll and finished fifth.  Colgate was 9th and 7th and finished fourth.  Yale and Cornell were picked to go 1-2 in both polls.  I am not surprised that Schafer didn't receive votes and am surprised Allain did.

Agreed. Though it is a shame that "exceeding expectations" is a more important standard than "building a quality team that lives up to high expectations." Of course, Cornell didn't exactly live up to the very high expectations that were put on them.

[Jim Hyla]

No specific topic on this so far. Here's a link to Times-Union article on Union Coach Leaman as Coach of the Year.

The final voting results for the award were not released by the league. However, it could not have been unanimous because Leaman could not vote for himself, plus the league disclosed that St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh, Colgate's Don Vaughan and Yale's Keith Allain all received votes.

Hmm, the coaches of all of the top five teams in the final ECAC standings, except for one of them.  :-|

Doesn't Coach of the Year in most sports go to a team that exceeded expectations?  Union was picked sixth in both the media and coaches preseason polls and finished third.  St. Lawrence was seven in the media poll and 10 in the coaches poll and finished fifth.  Colgate was 9th and 7th and finished fourth.  Yale and Cornell were picked to go 1-2 in both polls.  I am not surprised that Schafer didn't receive votes and am surprised Allain did.

Agreed. Though it is a shame that "exceeding expectations" is a more important standard than "building a quality team that lives up to high expectations." Of course, Cornell didn't exactly live up to the very high expectations that were put on them.

You're not saying they were relatively mediocre, are you?::whistle::

[Trotsky]

Schafer's won it 3 times in the last 9 years.  He can't win it every year.  (Though I'd be for it.)

[marty]

In a print story this morning The Troy Record has Jerry D'Amigo announced either Tuesday or today-it is hard to know for sure which today Ed Weaver is referring to- as league rookie of the year.  I don't see it announced on the ECAC site.

Troy Record

[Jim Hyla]

No rookie announcement, but here's Vermeulen as  Best Defensive Forward

[sah67]

Nick D'Agostino was also named Rookie of the Week for his performance in the Harvard series.

[ursusminor]

Chase Polacek is the ECAC PotY and a Hobey Finalist http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/03/17/sports/doc4ba1a6557338c120069067.txt.

[marty]

Ed Weaver of the Record seems to be getting a kick with the early announcements.

[Josh '99]

Justin Krueger named Best Defensive Defenseman

::rock::

[Jim Hyla]

Justin Krueger named Best Defensive Defenseman

::rock::

Thanks, I put it in my first post.

[marty]

Ken Dryden award to Ben Scrivens
ECAC  Dryden Award

The ECAC release notes:

Next, the 24-member Selection Committee and an additional round of fan balloting (at hobeybaker.com from March 19-28) will determine this year's Hobey Baker winner.

So we hopefully we can begin voting for Ben later today.

And the ECAC website also makes it official after two days of Troy Record pre-announcements that Polacek is POTY and D'Amigo is ROTY.