Men's and Women's Awards 2017-18

Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

FIRST TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Ryan Donato, Harvard
Forward Sheldon Rempal, Clarkson
Forward Max Véronneau, Princeton
Defense Adam Fox, Harvard
Defense Kelly Summers, Clarkson
Goaltender Matthew Galajda, Cornell

SECOND TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Anthony Angello, Cornell
Forward Ryan Kuffner, Princeton
Forward Joe Snively, Yale
Defense Terrance Amorosa, Clarkson
Defense Chase Priskie, Quinnipiac
Goaltender Colton Point, Colgate

THIRD TEAM ALL-LEAGUE
Forward Ryan Scarfo, Union
Forward Nico Sturm, Clarkson
Forward Odeen Tufto, Quinnipiac
Defense Yanni Kaldis, Cornell
Defense Josh Teves, Princeton
Goaltender Jake Kielly, Clarkson
Jake Kupsky, Union

ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
Forward Jack Badini, Harvard
Forward Jack Jacome, Clarkson
Forward Odeen Tufto, Quinnipiac
Defense Nick Austin, Colgate
Defense Reilly Walsh, Harvard
Goaltender Matthew Galajda, Cornell


A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

scoop85

Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

Now we just need to win in LP.

But the thing that really annoys me is having Alec McCrea left off. I mean he's the "Best Defensive Defenseman" and can't make the team, even third team!!!!!!!!

5 of them are 5 out of top 6 d'men in points. Only Kaldis disturbed it.

I guess that signals how they decide.

Jim Hyla

scoop85

Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

Now we just need to win in LP.

But the thing that really annoys me is having Alec McCrea left off. I mean he's the "Best Defensive Defenseman" and can't make the team, even third team!!!!!!!!

5 of them are 5 out of top 6 d'men in points. Only Kaldis disturbed it.

I guess that signals how they decide.

It’s nuts that the defensemen are judged primarily on their offensive output, as shown by the selections.

scoop85

Jim Hyla

scoop85

Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

Now we just need to win in LP.

But the thing that really annoys me is having Alec McCrea left off. I mean he's the "Best Defensive Defenseman" and can't make the team, even third team!!!!!!!!

5 of them are 5 out of top 6 d'men in points. Only Kaldis disturbed it.

I guess that signals how they decide.

It’s nuts that the defensemen are judged primarily on their offensive output, as shown by the selections.

I think that's an interesting pattern to observe, but it's still conclusory. Has anybody also checked, say, a list of all ECAC defensemen by +/- against these picks? Or number of blocked shots?

Beeeej

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Jim Hyla

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Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

Now we just need to win in LP.

But the thing that really annoys me is having Alec McCrea left off. I mean he's the "Best Defensive Defenseman" and can't make the team, even third team!!!!!!!!

5 of them are 5 out of top 6 d'men in points. Only Kaldis disturbed it.

I guess that signals how they decide.

It’s nuts that the defensemen are judged primarily on their offensive output, as shown by the selections.

I think that's an interesting pattern to observe, but it's still conclusory. Has anybody also checked, say, a list of all ECAC defensemen by +/- against these picks? Or number of blocked shots?

Yeah the first in +/- list is Amorosa, at #14. McCrea is third and we have 5/13 before Amorosa.

Jim Hyla

Beeeej

scoop85

Jim Hyla

scoop85

Jim Hyla
ECAC Hockey Announces All-League Teams

A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

Right you are. Hard to conceive of any other ECAC champion that has had such sparse representation on the all-league teams.

Now we just need to win in LP.

But the thing that really annoys me is having Alec McCrea left off. I mean he's the "Best Defensive Defenseman" and can't make the team, even third team!!!!!!!!

5 of them are 5 out of top 6 d'men in points. Only Kaldis disturbed it.

I guess that signals how they decide.

It’s nuts that the defensemen are judged primarily on their offensive output, as shown by the selections.

I think that's an interesting pattern to observe, but it's still conclusory. Has anybody also checked, say, a list of all ECAC defensemen by +/- against these picks? Or number of blocked shots?

Yeah the first in +/- list is Amorosa, at #14. McCrea is third and we have 5/13 before Amorosa.

Well, okay, then.

Basing all-conference defensemen on points isn't great, but I do think defense can be hard to measure beyond the eye test. Plus/minus and blocked shots both help, but they only go so far. Points is a hard and fast stat, so I can see the appeal. Plus, high scoring defensemen tend to be star players.

Dafatone
Basing all-conference defensemen on points isn't great, but I do think defense can be hard to measure beyond the eye test. Plus/minus and blocked shots both help, but they only go so far. Points is a hard and fast stat, so I can see the appeal. Plus, high scoring defensemen tend to be star players.

Yeah, but.................leaving off your pick for "Best Defensive Defenseman" tells a lot. If you can pick that, you ought to be able to decide if he belongs on All-ECAC team.

They said no, but I'm glad he's on our team.

Dafatone
Basing all-conference defensemen on points isn't great, but I do think defense can be hard to measure beyond the eye test. Plus/minus and blocked shots both help, but they only go so far.

Maybe, but somehow they were able to decide on a "best defensive defenseman."

Dafatone
Basing all-conference defensemen on points isn't great, but I do think defense can be hard to measure beyond the eye test. Plus/minus and blocked shots both help, but they only go so far. Points is a hard and fast stat, so I can see the appeal. Plus, high scoring defensemen tend to be star players.

Maybe what you can do is to pick your top offensive forwards first. Then, for each of your candidate defensemen, see how many points your stud forwards scored when they played against each other.

True, such an isolated +/- is partly a measure of the respective teams rather than the individuals involved, but that's a necessary problem with all individual awards in a team sport.

surprised that neither mccrea or smith made it onto any of the teams

ugarte
surprised that neither mccrea or smith made it onto any of the teams

But at least USCHO headlined McCrea when they announed the ECAC awards.

Jim Hyla
A decidedly non-Cornell team. Maybe because we're a team and not individuals.

No real argument here. Vanderlaan is at least a 3rd teamer to me. I wish Smith got more recognition. Donaldson in my mind deserves the rookie team but that's probably #b31b1b glasses.

Note that 2nd place (and dead!) Union has even less representation than we.

Galajda named ECAC goaltender of the year.

I would have to imagine that this would remove Colton Point out of the running for ECAC player of the year. One would think.

margolism
Galajda named ECAC goaltender of the year.

I would have to imagine that this would remove Colton Point out of the running for ECAC player of the year. One would think.

It's the Dryden Award. I'm all for using that name. Frankly, I think the national goaltender award should also carry that name.

margolism
Galajda named ECAC goaltender of the year.

I would have to imagine that this would remove Colton Point out of the running for ECAC player of the year. One would think.

You never know. They do some pretty illogical shit.

Borgstrom, Donato, Galajda, Gaudette, McLaughlin, Morris, Point, Schuldt, Sikura, Suess are your Hobey finalists.

— Chris Dilks (@ChrisDilks) March 14, 2018

Obvious play is obvious.

Trotsky
Obvious play is obvious.

Pretty much justified.

The good news is he'll be bald like his daddy in 15 years.

Swampy

Chris '03

Swampy
Galajda named a finalist for the Richter award.

Semifinalist

The headline says semifinalist, but the list says finalist. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Well, NOW he's a finalist, although the list only went from 10 to 5 candidates.

[cornellbigred.com]

Schafer Named Finalist for Spencer Penrose Award

Not that it's a surprise, since every conference COTY is automatically a finalist.

And yes I posted this same thing on another thread. Subtract it from my total, if you must.

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Matt Galajda is CHN's All-Rookie Goaltender.

But Colton Point gets the Second Team spot.

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KenP
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So it all evens out.

Jim Hyla

KenP
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So it all evens out.

in the end it always does.

Here's a CHN commentary about how goalies are often overlooked for Hobey Baker consideration. It mentions Galajda.

[www.collegehockeynews.com]

RichH
Here's a CHN commentary about how goalies are often overlooked for Hobey Baker consideration. It mentions Galajda.

[www.collegehockeynews.com]

That's a spectacularly stupid article, but I've never understood the point of the Richter. They should just ditch the award entirely.

Jim Hyla
Schafer Named Finalist for Spencer Penrose Award

Not that it's a surprise, since every conference COTY is automatically a finalist.

And yes I posted this same thing on another thread. Subtract it from my total, if you must.

In case anyone was wondering or didn't already see, Schafer lost out to Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson: [www.uscho.com]

Trotsky

RichH
Here's a CHN commentary about how goalies are often overlooked for Hobey Baker consideration. It mentions Galajda.

[www.collegehockeynews.com]

That's a spectacularly stupid article, but I've never understood the point of the Richter. They should just ditch the award entirely.

Probably due to budget issues, but some of these CHN articles look like they were posted as written without any amount of editing. Not as blatant as the stuff on USCHO though.

(Before adamw or anyone reads this the wrong way, I spend a ton of time on CHN, especially the stats page, and love how great a resource it is.)

BearLover

Trotsky

RichH
Here's a CHN commentary about how goalies are often overlooked for Hobey Baker consideration. It mentions Galajda.

[www.collegehockeynews.com]

That's a spectacularly stupid article, but I've never understood the point of the Richter. They should just ditch the award entirely.

Probably due to budget issues, but some of these CHN articles look like they were posted as written without any amount of editing. Not as blatant as the stuff on USCHO though.

(Before adamw or anyone reads this the wrong way, I spend a ton of time on CHN, especially the stats page, and love how great a resource it is.)

There are very big sites, 10X, 100X the size of CHN or the lax sites, that make do with little or no editing. Every site is cost-conscious. Online advertising just doesn't match print advertising.

Will

Jim Hyla
Schafer Named Finalist for Spencer Penrose Award

Not that it's a surprise, since every conference COTY is automatically a finalist.

And yes I posted this same thing on another thread. Subtract it from my total, if you must.

In case anyone was wondering or didn't already see, Schafer lost out to Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson: [www.uscho.com]

USCHO
This is [Jackson's] fourth trip to the Frozen Four with Notre Dame and second in a row.

The runner-up for the award was Ohio State’s Steve Rohlik, who also led the Buckeyes to the Frozen Four.

Plus the Golden Domers won the women's basketball tournament. The rich get richer.

Last one for the season:

Galajda gets Eastern 1st Team All-American. First CU freshman. Only Eastern AA outside the Boston area.

[cornellbigred.com]

The ECAC dominates the 2nd team.

Richter will be announced at about 8:30.

Trotsky
Richter will be announced at about 8:30.

Cale Morris won it.

Gaudette won the Hobey.

Matthew Galajda USCHO Second Team

Since only 1 other freshman made their top 3 teams, I think he has a reasonable chance of ROTY.

Cornell Hockey Association banquet was last night.

Cornell Places 34 on ECAC Hockey All-Academic Teams

2017-18 ECAC All-Academic Team Comprises 275 Male Student-Athletes

and 193 Female Student-Athletes

God bless the Ag school.

Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

Swampy

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

And from an RPI alum, God bless the Lally School of Management.

Out of 13 new players for next season including a transfer who showed up last season to sit out and two more transfers who won't be eligible until the second semester, 11 are in the online directory as of today and all are Business and Management majors. All five incoming women's players are also Business and Management majors.

I often think that the NCAA should require that the distribution of majors on a team should reflect the general student body, just like grades are supposed to, but it will never happen.

ursusminor

Swampy

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

And from an RPI alum, God bless the Lally School of Management.

Out of 13 new players for next season including a transfer who showed up last season to sit out and two more transfers who won't be eligible until the second semester, 11 are in the online directory as of today and all are Business and Management majors. All five incoming women's players are also Business and Management majors.

I often think that the NCAA should require that the distribution of majors on a team should reflect the general student body, just like grades are supposed to, but it will never happen.

I can see the SEC mandating that 95% of all its graduates must major in Physical Education.

Trotsky

ursusminor

Swampy

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

And from an RPI alum, God bless the Lally School of Management.

Out of 13 new players for next season including a transfer who showed up last season to sit out and two more transfers who won't be eligible until the second semester, 11 are in the online directory as of today and all are Business and Management majors. All five incoming women's players are also Business and Management majors.

I often think that the NCAA should require that the distribution of majors on a team should reflect the general student body, just like grades are supposed to, but it will never happen.

I can see the SEC mandating that 95% of all its graduates must major in Physical Education.

Do any of them actually graduate?

Trotsky

ursusminor

Swampy

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

And from an RPI alum, God bless the Lally School of Management.

Out of 13 new players for next season including a transfer who showed up last season to sit out and two more transfers who won't be eligible until the second semester, 11 are in the online directory as of today and all are Business and Management majors. All five incoming women's players are also Business and Management majors.

I often think that the NCAA should require that the distribution of majors on a team should reflect the general student body, just like grades are supposed to, but it will never happen.

I can see the SEC mandating that 95% of all its graduates must major in Physical Education.

BU's disproportionate major of choice among the hockey team is the College of General Studies, or CGS, a holdall intended for freshmen and sophomores still determining life's path and not wishing to be frightened by undue academic rigor. Also known as Crayons, Glue, Scissors.

billhoward

Trotsky

ursusminor

Swampy

dag14
Not sure how many of the majors/colleges are wrong but Yanni is in the Hotel School last I knew....

God bless the Hotel school.

And from an RPI alum, God bless the Lally School of Management.

Out of 13 new players for next season including a transfer who showed up last season to sit out and two more transfers who won't be eligible until the second semester, 11 are in the online directory as of today and all are Business and Management majors. All five incoming women's players are also Business and Management majors.

I often think that the NCAA should require that the distribution of majors on a team should reflect the general student body, just like grades are supposed to, but it will never happen.

I can see the SEC mandating that 95% of all its graduates must major in Physical Education.

BU's disproportionate major of choice among the hockey team is the College of General Studies, or CGS, a holdall intended for freshmen and sophomores still determining life's path and not wishing to be frightened by undue academic rigor. Also known as Crayons, Glue, Scissors.

I'm afraid I must defend CGS, as my son went there. It's true that BU channels students to CGS who are in the lower part of BU's admission distribution. As it was explained to us, these are students who have shown they can do well at BU but who need more structure acclimating to college. Unlike other colleges, like Arts & Sciences, CGS has a very structured curriculum, with no electives until the second year (and then only one per semester). Instead, the faculty decides what students need to know and team-teaches a set of courses, which themselves are coordinated with each other. For example, one course might be covering the Enlightenment at the same time a complementary one might be covering Newtonian physics. My son had applied to one of BU's most popular majors (Film & TV), but was admitted to CGS instead. Initially we were leery of this, thinking it was some sort of booby prize. But when we spoke to faculty members in F&TV, they said students coming out of CGS were often better than those coming from A&S. This persuaded us to let him go there.

It does not surprise me that CGS students are better prepared. At many colleges it's common for incoming students to spend their first two years fulfilling "General Education" requirements. Although some majors may prescribe certain courses to fulfill GenEd requirements (e.g., engineering might require calculus to satisfy a quantitative reasoning GenEd requirement), most majors allow the students to choose most of their courses. For example, I know of one university that allows students to choose from over 14,000 GenEd credit hours to fulfill a 40-hr GenEd requirement. In contrast to, say, Columbia with its great books tradition, this is the exact opposite: the university in question doesn't have the foggiest idea of any substantive knowledge students should have. And, of course, with a ratio of over 350:1 of credit hours to choose from per 1 credit-hour requirement, it's easy for students to find gut courses.

I'm very happy my son went through CGS before going into the F&TV major. When I heard him holding his own discussing quantum mechanics with his older brother, who was a National Merit Scholar and double-majored in physics and philosophy at a top liberal arts college, and when after we saw Lincoln together he mentioned that Democrats and Republicans "were reversed" (left-to-right) at the time of the Civil War, I knew he had made the right choice.

105 ECAC Athletes Earn Scholar All-American

As we all know, using GPA does not accurately compare students from different institutions, but here are CU's winners.

Men
Noah Bauld   Sophomore Forward    Halifax, Nova Scotia
Kyle Betts   Freshman  Forward    Flesherton, Ontario
Matt Nuttle  Junior    Defenseman Marilla, New York
Trevor Yates Senior    Forward    Beaconsfield, Quebec

Women
Diana Buckley    Junior    Forward    Woodbridge. Virginia
Devon Facchinato Freshman  Defenseman Windsor, Ontario
Sarah Knee       Senior    Defenseman Toronto, Ontario
Erin O'Connor    Senior    Defenseman Evanston, Illinois
Brianna Veerman  Senior    Forward    Burlington, Ontario

That is indeed an interesting list. Of the seven RPI men's players listed, only Brady Wiffen is expected to be back for the upcoming season. You may remember that he was unable to play his freshman season due to being a partial qualifier. Also, all of the seven are foreign-born.

ursusminor
That is indeed an interesting list. Of the seven RPI men's players listed, only Brady Wiffen is expected to be back for the upcoming season. You may remember that he was unable to play his freshman season due to being a partial qualifier. Also, all of the seven are foreign-born.

Well, Canada is in America

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
That is indeed an interesting list. Of the seven RPI men's players listed, only Brady Wiffen is expected to be back for the upcoming season. You may remember that he was unable to play his freshman season due to being a partial qualifier. Also, all of the seven are foreign-born.

Well, Canada is in America

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