ECAC Hockey League Announces Annual Award Winners
St. Lawrence's Trevelyan Named Player of the Year
ALBANY, N.Y. - St. Lawrence forward T.J. Trevelyan (Mississauga, Ont.) was named the ECAC Hockey League's Player of the Year, it was announced earlier this evening (March 16) at the league's annual banquet. The senior was one of several individuals to earn recognition at the annual event, which marks the start of the men's championship weekend.
Colgate's Mark Dekanich (North Vancouver, B.C.) was the league's Ken Dryden Award winner as the Goaltender of the Year, after being named a first-team all-league selection. Rookie of the Year honors went to newcomer Quinnipiac's Bryan Leitch (Coquitlam, B.C.), while St. Lawrence's Mike Madill (Kirkland, Que.) was named Best Defensive Defenseman and Dartmouth's Mike Ouellette (Kamloops, B.C.) was named Best Defensive Forward. Madill and Ouellette joined Trevelyan and Dekanich, as each also earned first-teams honors.
Dartmouth head coach Bob Gaudet was named the Coach of the Year, while St. Lawrence earned the first-ever Turfer Athletic Trophy, which is given to the team that the coaches believe best fits the ideals of both Turfer Athletic and the ECAC Hockey League: Sportsmanship, Commitment, Tenacity and Innovation.
2006 ECAC Hockey League Player of the Year
T.J. Trevelyan St. Lawrence
Senior (Mississauga, Ontario)
2006 ECAC Hockey League First-Team Forward
Trevelyan led the league in scoring with 32 points on 12
goals and 20 assists through 22 games, an impressive average of
1.45 goals per game. His 16 goals in league play were also tops,
while his assists were second. A unanimous choice to the league's
first team, he also led in overall scoring through the first two
rounds of the playoffs and finished he year with 48 points with 20
goals and 28 assists. Trevelyan, who was also named a Hobey Baker
Memorial Award top-10 finalist earlier in the night, becomes the
fifth player in St. Lawrence history to earn Player of the Year
honors.
2006 Ken Dryden Award Winner
Mark Dekanich Colgate
Sophomore (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
2006 ECAC Hockey League First-Team Goaltender
During league play, Dekanich led the ECACHL with a 1.98
goals against average and a .934 save percentage. His .923 save
percentage overall leads the league and ranks 11th in the nation,
and his 2.30 goals against average is third in the conference.
Dekanich is just the second goalie in Colgate history to receive a
major league award, and the first to receive the Dryden Award.
All-American netminder Dave Gagnon was honored as the league's
player of the year in 1990.
2006 ECAC Hockey League
Best Defensive Forward
Mike Ouellette Dartmouth
Senior (Kamloops, British Columbia)
2006 ECAC Hockey League First-Team Forward
Ouellette became the first Big Green player to be named the
league's top defensive forward, and he was also chosen first team
All-ECACHL, another first. He currently leads the team with 35
points and finished the league's regular season ranked fifth in
scoring. His Big Green squad earned a share of the ECAC Hockey
League's regular season title. His 25 points in league games ranked
him fifth in the ECACHL scoring race.
2006 ECAC Hockey League
Best Defensive Defenseman
Mike Madill St. Lawrence
Senior (Kirkland, Quebec)
2006 ECAC Hockey League First-Team Defense
Madill, who set St. Lawrence career records in games played
with 154 and consecutive games played at 153 is the third player in
Saint hockey history to earn the league's top defensive award since
its inception in 1992-93. Madill, a Saint captain and the lone
senior on a defensive unit which included a quartet of freshmen,
also made significant contributions for the Saints offensively,
finishing his senior year with a career high 27 points on five
goals and 22 assists. He was second overall among all ECACHL
defensemen in scoring en route to also earning first-team honors.
Madill finishes his career with 14 goals and 49 assists for 63
points.
2006 ECAC Hockey League Rookie of the Year
Brian Leitch Quinnipiac
Forward (Coquitlam, British Columbia)
Leitch took home the league's top rookie honor after
leading all the newcomers in scoring with 28 points in league
games, an average of 1.27 points per game. His 28 points was also
second-best to just Trevelyan. He was also second to Trevelyan in
overall scoring with 14 goals and 31 assists for a 45-point season.
His average of 1.15 points per game ranks third nationally among
rookies.
2006 ECAC Hockey League Coach of the Year
Bob Gaudet Dartmouth
In earning Coach of the Year honors, Gaudet becomes just
the second coach in ECACHL history to win the award with two
different schools. Gaudet was named the coach of the year while at
Brown in 1995. He joins Roger Demment as Dartmouth's only other
coach of the year. The Big Green finished tied for first in the
ECAC Hockey League, earning a share of its first ever William J.
Cleary Cup as the regular-season champion.
2006 ECAC Hockey League
First Team Forward
Tyler Burton Colgate
Sophmomore (Langley, British
Columbia)
Burton joins teammate Dekanich on the first team after
leading the league with 16 goals during conference play. Burton
finished the league slate with 26 points, which ranked fourth, and
he netted four of his league-leading five game-winning goals during
ECACHL games. Overall, Burton is tied for the team lead and tied
for sixth in the league with 40 points, and he is second on the
team and in the league with 22 goals.
2006 ECAC Hockey League
First Team Defense
Reid Cashman Quinnipiac
Junior (Red Wing, Minnesota)
The final first-team selection was Cashman, he after
leading the ECACHL in assists (36) and ranking first among league
defenseman in scoring with 41 points. Cashman currently ranks
fourth nationally in assists and is third among Division I
defensemen in scoring. His 36 assists were the second-highest
single-season total in Quinnipiac history. Cashman became the 24th
player in program history to reach the 100-point plateau on Feb. 18
and staked his claim as the highest-scoring blue liner in program
history on March 11.
The league also recognized its top rookies, with Leitch leading the way on the six-man list. Clarkson's Shea Guthrie (Carleton Place, Ont.) and Princeton's Brett Wilson (Calgary, Alb.) joined Leitch as all-rookie team forwards, while SLU's Matt Generous (Cheshire, Conn) and Colgate's Nick St. Pierre St. Etienne, Que.) were the defensive picks. Rensselaer's Mathias Lange (Klangenfurt, Austria) was name the top rookie netminder. Leitch, Generous and Lange were all unanimous picks to the rookie squad. Thirteen other student-athletes were also recognized at the banquet with second- and third-team honors.
2006 ECAC Men's Hockey League All-League Selections
| INDIVIDUAL & TEAM AWARDS Player of the Year - T.J. Trevelyan, St. Lawrence Ken Dryden Award - Mark Dekanich, Colgate Rookie of the Year - Bryan Leitch, Quinnipiac Best Defensive Forward - Mike Ouellette, Dartmouth Best Defensive Defenseman - Mike Madill, St. Lawrence Coach of the Year - Bob Gaudet, Dartmouth Turfer Athletic Trophy - St. Lawrence FIRST-TEAM ALL-LEAGUE SECOND-TEAM ALL-LEAGUE | THIRD-TEAM
ALL-LEAGUE F - Nick Dodge, Clarkson F - Grant Goeckner-Zoeller, Princeton F - Kevin Croxton, Rensselaer F - Kevin Du, Harvard D - Ryan O'Byrne, Cornell D - Keith MCWilliams, Rensselaer G - Eric Leroux, Princeton ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
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