Awards 2019-20

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

They named none of the Yale forwards to either team.

None of Arcobella, Backman, O'Neill, Little, and Miller.

That is... questionable.

First team yet to come.  You'd have to think at least one of them would end up there.

Nope, they announced it already.

Oops.  

Hard to argue with the first team choices, tho.

[Trotsky]

They named none of the Yale forwards to either team.

None of Arcobella, Backman, O'Neill, Little, and Miller.

That is... questionable.

First team yet to come.  You'd have to think at least one of them would end up there.

Nope, they announced it already.

Oops.  

Hard to argue with the first team choices, tho.

I don't buy Donato up there.  That's hype and the Boston Mafia. I'd have put Backman on the first team and Little instead of Kuffner on the second team.  Kuffner was a great story but he's only there for team diversity.

Chase Polacek would have been a great choice too.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

They named none of the Yale forwards to either team.

None of Arcobella, Backman, O'Neill, Little, and Miller.

That is... questionable.

First team yet to come.  You'd have to think at least one of them would end up there.

Nope, they announced it already.

Oops.  

Hard to argue with the first team choices, tho.

I don't buy Donato up there.  That's hype and the Boston Mafia. I'd have put Backman on the first team and Little instead of Kuffner on the second team.  Kuffner was a great story but he's only there for team diversity.

Chase Polacek would have been a great choice too.

Interesting.  The one first team choice I questioned in my mind was Vecchione.  Maybe that's because I've seen him play a lot in the pros and I'm not especially impressed.

[redice]

They named none of the Yale forwards to either team.

None of Arcobella, Backman, O'Neill, Little, and Miller.

That is... questionable.

First team yet to come.  You'd have to think at least one of them would end up there.

Nope, they announced it already.

Since the ECAC isn't very good at this, here are the selections in simple form:

First Team:

F Jimmy Vesey (Harvard)
F Mike Vecchione (Union)
F Ryan Donato (Harvard)
D Shayne Gostisbehere (Union)
D Adam Fox (Harvard)
G Alex Lyon (Yale)

Second Team:

F Greg Carey (St. Lawrence)
F Daniel Carr (Union)
F Ryan Kuffner (Princeton)
F Austin Smith (Colgate)
D Mat Bodie (Union)
D Gavin Bayreuther (St. Lawrence)
G Matthew Galajda (Cornell)
G Kyle Hayton (St. Lawrence).

It seems like the selection people have short memories.

[adamw]

I don't buy Donato up there.  That's hype and the Boston Mafia. I'd have put Backman on the first team and Little instead of Kuffner on the second team.  Kuffner was a great story but he's only there for team diversity.

Chase Polacek would have been a great choice too.

I came to say that I voted for Polacek First Team - and it's a shame so many voters skipped him. Recency bias at its finest.

Then I saw Greg's comment about Donato - and he's not the first. I've had to have this conversation like 3 times this week already.  Donato was a no-brainer First Teamer for me.  I think my first team was Donato, Vesey, Polacek.

Here is Top 20 in Goals Per Game - Nationally - in the past decade (note all the ECAC'ers on there)

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+-----------+--------+------------+------+--------+
| player_ID | first  | last       | gm   | gpg    |
+-----------+--------+------------+------+--------+
|     26822 | Reilly | Smith      |   77 | 0.7532 |
|     28269 | Johnny | Gaudreau   |  119 | 0.6555 |
|     27674 | Jimmy  | Vesey      |  128 | 0.6250 |
|     29954 | Ryan   | Donato     |   97 | 0.6186 |
|     33046 | Johnny | Walker     |  100 | 0.6000 |
|     29494 | Luke   | Kunin      |   69 | 0.5942 |
|     30095 | Adam   | Gaudette   |  116 | 0.5862 |
|     31654 | Henrik | Borgström  |   77 | 0.5844 |
|     29487 | Brock  | Boeser     |   74 | 0.5811 |
|     25622 | Brian  | O'Neill    |   71 | 0.5775 |
|     26307 | Jason  | Zucker     |   78 | 0.5769 |
|     25388 | Austin | Smith      |   80 | 0.5750 |
|     27679 | Sam    | Anas       |  121 | 0.5702 |
|     29958 | Ryan   | Kuffner    |  132 | 0.5682 |
|     28339 | Cody   | Wydo       |  151 | 0.5629 |
|     25605 | Alex   | Killorn    |   68 | 0.5588 |
|     35886 | Drew   | O'Connor   |   61 | 0.5574 |
|     27278 | Greg   | Carey      |  152 | 0.5526 |
|     26525 | Matt   | Gingera    |   69 | 0.5507 |
|     26312 | Drew   | Shore      |   82 | 0.5488 |
+-----------+--------+------------+------+--------+


[Trotsky]

There are no Cornellians in your list so it is in invalid.

(OK, fine.  Donato then.)

[scoop85]

They named none of the Yale forwards to either team.

None of Arcobella, Backman, O'Neill, Little, and Miller.

That is... questionable.

First team yet to come.  You'd have to think at least one of them would end up there.

Nope, they announced it already.

Oops.  

Hard to argue with the first team choices, tho.

I don't buy Donato up there.  That's hype and the Boston Mafia. I'd have put Backman on the first team and Little instead of Kuffner on the second team.  Kuffner was a great story but he's only there for team diversity.

Chase Polacek would have been a great choice too.

Interesting.  The one first team choice I questioned in my mind was Vecchione.  Maybe that's because I've seen him play a lot in the pros and I'm not especially impressed.

Maybe so, but Vecchione was a heck of a college player.

[RichH]

Cornell came pretty close to sweeping the Ivy League Women's Hockey Postseason Awards. After going 10-0, they got all three major awards, 4/6 First Team, and 1/6 Second Team. In Ivy games, Cornell outscored their opponents 51-6. Damn.

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[b]PLAYER OF THE YEAR[/b]
[color=#FF0000]Lindsay Browning, Cornell (Jr., G – Penfield, N.Y.)[/color]

[b]ROOKIE OF THE YEAR[/b]
[color=#FF0000]Izzy Daniel, Cornell (Fr., F – Minneapolis, Minn.)[/color]

[b]COACH OF THE YEAR[/b]
[color=#FF0000]Doug Derraugh, Cornell[/color] [i](4th straight)[/i]
 
[b]FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY[/b]
[color=#FF0000]Kristin O'Neill, Cornell (Sr., F – Oakville, Ontario, Canada)[/color]
* Sarah Fillier, Princeton (So., F – Georgetown, Ontario, Canada)
Carly Bullock, Princeton (Sr., F – Eden Prairie, Minn.)
[color=#FF0000]Micah Zandee-Hart, Cornell (Sr., D – Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada)
* Jaime Bourbonnais, Cornell (Sr., D – Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
Lindsay Browning, Cornell (Jr., G – Penfield, N.Y.)[/color]
 
[b]SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY[/b]
[color=#FF0000]Maddie Mills, Cornell (Jr., F – Sewickley, Pa.)[/color]
Dominique Petrie, Harvard (So., F – Hermosa Beach, Calif.)
Maggie Connors, Princeton (So., F – St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Claire Thompson, Princeton (Sr., D – Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Emma Seitz, Yale (So., D – New York, N.Y.)
Rachel McQuigge, Princeton (Jr., G – Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada)
 
[b]HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY[/b]
Kristin Della Rovere, Harvard (So., F – Caledon East, Ontario, Canada)
Claire Dalton, Yale (So., F – Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Lotti Odnoga, Dartmouth (So., D – Györ, Hungary)
Ali Peper, Harvard (Sr., D – Arvada, Colo.)
Becky Dutton, Harvard (Jr., G – Milford, Conn.)
 
* Unanimous Selection


[ugarte]

still can't figure how Browning won POY and someone voted against her for first-team goalie.

[Trotsky]

still can't figure how Browning won POY and someone voted against her for first-team goalie.

Yeah, that was interesting to have two unanimous picks but neither win POTY.

IIRC (I probably don't) there was actually a case in one of the league (the Ivies?) a few years ago where the POTY didn't make the First Team, which ought to be logically impossible.

[RichH]

still can't figure how Browning won POY and someone voted against her for first-team goalie.

iT's ThE sYsTeM

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

still can't figure how Browning won POY and someone voted against her for first-team goalie.

iT's ThE sYsTeM

And a damn good one!

[scoop85]

I've watched a fair number of the women's games this year and I think Bourbonnais has been the team's best player.

[Trotsky]

We can't let this week's awards go without noting that Matt Stienburg looks like a hilarious goofball.

[Cop at Lynah]

But he can put the puck in the back of the net net and ruffle opponents feathers a bit too