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HANOVER, N.H. -- The American Hockey Coaches Association announced today its list of 2008 award winners. Among those is Dartmouth assistant coach Dave Peters. Peters received the Terry Flanagan Award given to honor an assistant coach for his career body of work.

Dave Peters is in his ninth season at Dartmouth College. He is one of the most accomplished assistant coaches and recruiters in the country. Peters has a proven record for improving programs and helping to develop players. His responsibilities at Dartmouth include recruiting, coaching the forwards and the power play.

Dartmouth has had an All-America forward in each of the last four seasons and in 2007 David Jones became Dartmouth's first Hobey Baker finalist. In 2004 Dartmouth had three players selected among the top 100 picks of the NHL draft, and in 2002-03 the Big Green had the highest scoring freshman class in the country.

From 1993-98, Peters was the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Providence College. In his third season, Peters helped lead the Friars to the 1996 Hockey East Championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament. It marked the first and only time that Providence made back-to-back trips to the Hockey East finals.

In May of 1998, Peters was named head coach and general manager of the Danville Wings junior hockey team, where he assembled a team that went on to win the 2000 North American Hockey League Championship and finish third in the nation.

From 1990-93, as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator, Peters was a driving force in building the Kent State University hockey program into a competitive CCHA member.

Peters spends part of the off -season working for USA Hockey, coaching and helping to develop elite players in New England. Peters is a 1982 graduate of Boston College with a bachelors degree in marketing.

Past winners of the Flanagan Award include: Terry Flanagan (1997) - Bowling Green; Bob Saunders (1998) - HC, RPI, UMB, NU; Glen Kulyk (1999) - Minnesota-Duluth; Mel Pearson (2000) - Michigan; Brian Durocher (2001) - AIC, Colgate, Brown, BU; Kevin Houle (2002) - Plattsburgh; Stu Irving (2003) - Merrimack College; Tom Newton (2004) - MSU, WMU;  Grant Standbrook (2005) - Maine, Wisconsin; Bill Powers (2006) Michigan; David Lassonde (2007) UNH, Miami, Wisconsin.