CCHA awards for Hagelin and Hunwick

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:33 PM
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JustGoBlue
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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-incl...).

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March 17th, 2011 at 9:37 PM | Ah, yes. (Score:1)
JustGoBlue
Joined: 06/15/2009
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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 (Score:1)
bluetell
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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

Rudy watches inspirational movies about Shawn Hunwick

 

March 17th, 2011 at 11:11 PM | Disrespect (Score:1)
pz
Joined: 06/30/2008
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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!).

This is Michigan.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:03 AM | OK, (Score:1)
JustGoBlue
Joined: 06/15/2009
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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 | Bracket predictions (Score:1)
JustGoBlue
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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

 
The East Regional is a pretty weak, I think ND wins it.  Ours isn't too too bad, UNO is good with Blais, but they've struggled the last couple games.  Blais has kind of had Red's number, but we don't match up poorly with them.   We know WMU, who is good, but certainly beatable and Denver has struggled a little bit recently as well after a really strong middle of the season.   Not an easy bracket by any means, but I'll take all of those teams before North Dakota, Miami or BC.
 
Miami and North Dakota are probably the two best teams in the country with how they're playing right now.  That sould be a great game, if Miami gets by Duluth, who has been inconsistent, but can be very good.  BC should roll through the Northeast, UNH in Manchester is tough but beatable.
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