CCHA awards for Hagelin and Hunwick
Hagelin won best Defensive Forward and Hunwick, Denard Robinson-like, (he was left off of the all-conference teams by the coaches) won Best Goaltender (determined purely by GAA).
Red Berenson did not win Coach of the Year and Jon Merrill did not win Rookie of the Year, Best Offensive Defensemen or Best Defensive Defensemen. Hagelin also failed to win Player of the Year.
Info from MGoBlue (http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/031711aaa.html)
The CCHA website doesn't have information yet, so I can't say for sure who won what, but I think Blashill (WMU) for Coach of the Year, Tynan (ND) for Rookie of the year and Miele (Miami) for Player of the year are pretty obvious. For the other two, I would guess Lorenz (ND) for defensive defenseman and Krug (MSU) for offensive defensemen.
EDIT: Jeff Jackson (ND), in what is perhaps a greater travesty than Shawn Hunwick not making an all-CCHA team, won Coach of the Year over Jeff Blashill.
EDIT 2: Besides Mass Confusion of the Jeff's, my picks were correct. CCHA Release: http://www.ccha.com/2010-11_ccha_award_winners.aspx
Hagelin was also left off the Top 10 list of Hobey Baker candidates, released today (http://www.uscho.com/2011/03/17/list-of-hobey-baker-award-finalists-inc…).
Jeff Jackson won coach of the year even though Jeff Blashill from WMU completely deserved it over Jackson. Anyone who turns around WMU in one season deservers that award.
I forgot that it was more impressive to move up 7 places with 10 new players than to go up 8 places with all new players. My mistake. How silly of me.
I believe this calls for a "HALOL"
March 17th, 2011 at 10:53 PM ^
Blashill was a holy lock for coach of the year
Edit: What did Jeff Jackson do to earn that? Excluding Blashill, Red deserves it more than Jackson. He took almost the exact same team that finished 7th last year to a 1st place finish
March 17th, 2011 at 11:11 PM ^
This team outperformed expectations (albeit in a different way than was expected), and it is too bad to only win the awards that are essentially undeniable.
Also wish these guys would get a little more respect from our Michigan fan base!
This has been a strangely really good season, and I hope these guys can piece together a nice tourney run (not least of which because I'm in Minneapolis and would love to see them in the F4!).
March 18th, 2011 at 12:03 AM ^
Try to tell me the guy with the most points in the CCHA since 1991-1992 (More than Morrison or Porter or Cammalleri or... or... or...) and in CCHA play, has more assists than Carl has points, doesn't deserve player of the year. There is no way Hagelin deserves player of the year over Miele, no way Merrill deserves Rookie of the Year over Tynan and no way Red deserves Coach of the Year over Blashill (One can argue over Jackson).
You can argue the best offensive and defensive defensemen for Merrill, but not convincingly. I think the CCHA, besides coach, got it pretty much dead on.
There's no disrespect towards Michigan in those awards. Besides, as long as the TEAM wins a few more trophies, who really cares who individually wins trophies? I just hope Michigan doesn't have to play Miami in a regional. Right now it's looking like, unless, one team loses both games at the Joe and the other wins both, Michigan and Miami will be the 4/5 seeds. Meaning that unless the committee decides to change things up a little bit and if seeds hold, they will play each other in a regional final again.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:51 AM ^
from Jayson Moy at USCHO (http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2011/03/17/after-thursday/)
East Regional (Bridgeport)
16 RIT vs. 1 Yale
9 Notre Dame vs. 6 Merrimack
West Regional (St. Louis)
13 Nebraska-Omaha vs. 4 Michigan
12 Western Michigan vs. 7 Denver
Midwest Regional (Green Bay)
15 Dartmouth vs. 2 North Dakota
10 Minnesota-Duluth vs. 5 Miami
Northeast Regional (Manchester)
14 Colorado College vs. 3 Boston College
11 New Hampshire vs. 8 Union