Hockey East Awards

[TonyTheTiger20]

Player of the Year: Kelli Stack

Rookie of the Year: Kelli Stack

Goaltender of the Year: Melissa Bourdon

Coach of the Year: Tom Mutch

First Team All-Conference:
G - Brittany Wilson (UC)
D - Kristin Gigliotti (PC)
D - Martine Garland (UNH)
D - Natalie Vibert (UC)
F - Kelli Stack (BC)
F - Allie Thunstrom (BC)
F - Sam Faber (UNH)

Second Team:
G - Molly Schaus (BC)
D - Kacey Ballamy (UNH)
D - Maggie Taverna (BC)
F - Jennifer Hitchcock (UNH)
F - Becky Zavisza (BC)
F - Jaclyn Hawkins (UC)

All-Rookie:
G - Molly Schaus (BC)
F - Kellie Stack (BC)
F - Allie Thunstrom (BC)
F - Chelsey Jones (NU)
F - Kelly Paton (UNH)
F - Dominique Thibault (UC)

[TonyTheTiger20]

My apoligies...here are links:

Awards: http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/women/presarch/200703/mar2aw.php

All-Star Teams: http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/women/presarch/200703/mar2as.php

[TonyTheTiger20]

ok, thoughts?

i was told that goalie of the year is all GAA...which, is a terrible way to determine it. GAA has more to do with the team in front of you than the goalie.

Case in point is that Bourdon got Goaltender of the Year, but wasn't even first team, second team, or honorable mention goalie.

Also, good for Brittany Wilson. I, naturally, would have picked Schaus for first team goalie, but I can see where those who voted are coming from - without Wilson, uconn isnt even close to a tourney birth.

Alright fot Mutch for coach of the year! Nice to see him getting recognized for what he did with the program.

[gongshow]

awesome for mutch. great guy, great coach. really turned that team around in a few short years.
on another note, melissa anderson from BU got absolutely robbed. had more points than thibault, paton, and jones but was snubbed from the all rookie team. bull*****

[vellnueve]

Jones was a lock (best player on a horrible team as a freshman). I thought thibault was as well.

[ARM]

on another note, melissa anderson from BU got absolutely robbed. had more points than thibault, paton, and jones but was snubbed from the all rookie team.Most conferences go by performance in conference games only for All Conference awards. The others had more points in conference play, although Anderson did have a higher PPG. Missing 6 conference games probably hurt her chances.

[gongshow]

anderson was probably the best player on BU as a freshman, i'd take her over paton and jones any day

[freak]

anderson was probably the best player on BU as a freshman, i'd take her over paton and jones any day

All well and good, but rather irrelevant to the point.

[UNHKazooMonkey]

awesome for mutch. great guy, great coach. really turned that team around in a few short years.
on another note, melissa anderson from BU got absolutely robbed. had more points than thibault, paton, and jones but was snubbed from the all rookie team. bull*****

do you really think a coach that took his team from second in the conference to SECOND in the conference deserved the award? I personally do not. I wouldnt have gone with Coach Mac either. I probably would have picked Derocher (sp.?) from BU or Deraney from PC for keeping competitive while losing a lot of his core team.

[vellnueve]

Durrocher would have gotten it if his team had made the playoffs, but being BU they collapsed when it mattered. Deraney and his program are trending down, not up. Bugden was THE reason that Providence made a run in the HEA tourney, not Deraney, and the awards were voted on before that anyway. He was expected to have a solid but not great team this year and he met those expectations.

[terry.cahill]

one thing mutch has over durocher: katie king. in terms of experience and "qualification" in the coaching staff, it kinda drops off a cliff after durocher over at BU. and what's with that volunteer guy?

[vellnueve]

Volunteer coaches are not unusual. Many schools will have a head coach and assistant coach for any particular sport and then the others will be volunteers or recent graduates who are looking to get into coaching.

[cavbim]

awesome for mutch. great guy, great coach. really turned that team around in a few short years.
on another note, melissa anderson from BU got absolutely robbed. had more points than thibault, paton, and jones but was snubbed from the all rookie team. bull*****

Part of the problem really is the league saw fit to have 5 forwards and not put a single defenseman on the team. By going 5 deep you do start to make comparisions. I tend to agree with ARM that since this is done based on the league stats your argument loses some validity. However the choosing process, while better with 8 people chosing instead of 6 still can leave some problems. I looked over her stats. She was pretty consistent, but never shined, which very well might have meant she never caught the opposing coach's eye. She had a 3 point game vs Vermont, but missed the other 2 games, she missed 2 league games against BC, a team where the coach couldn't vote for his own guys and got no points in the 3rd game, was held scoreless in 2 games vs UConn.

Countering that while Jones has some things going for her (her points represent the highest per cent of a team's goals in league play) she too could very well have fallen through the cracks. She scored about 2/3 of her points in the first 10 games with a large portion against Maine. That might suggest she too would not have stood out against a lot of other teams.

All in all I think the league did a better job getting a true represenation of who their all stars are then in past years. Again having 8 people voting instead of 6 might rid some of the anomilies that occurred in the past.

[cavbim]

one thing mutch has over durocher: katie king. in terms of experience and "qualification" in the coaching staff, it kinda drops off a cliff after durocher over at BU. and what's with that volunteer guy?


I actually think the BU assistants are very highly thought of and have paid their dues. They may not have the national rep King has (though Silva was a star) but they've put the time in and their efforts show.

[cavbim]

Durrocher would have gotten it if his team had made the playoffs, but being BU they collapsed when it mattered. Deraney and his program are trending down, not up. Bugden was THE reason that Providence made a run in the HEA tourney, not Deraney, and the awards were voted on before that anyway. He was expected to have a solid but not great team this year and he met those expectations.


I wouldn't say BU collapsed. I think the coach's preseason gave them a little too much credit picking them 3rd, but once the season began they pretty much stayed at the 500 level all year which kept them below the top 4 most of the time. I think the 3rd place expectation was a little high for a 2nd year program, but I think the coaches would have looked a little silly voting for him.

Deraney and Linstad both actually brought their teams in higher then expected because BU was picked so high. Deraney's main problem is how he got his team into third, his system seems to turn just about every one off. He had a problem with defense the previous year and since he returned his whole defensive corps it wasn't going to be readily fixed and losing 3 solid forwards he had the added hole of matching last year's offense. He did not land any blue chip recruits to help fill these holes and using 4 transfers at any one time he might have had almost half a team that was not with the program the previous year that he had to mesh in with the veterans. I actually think he traded the 4 losses at the end of the year when he realized he would not catch BC/UNH and would not compete with them in the playoffs if he did not reconfigure his team's style. That was not the same PC team on Saturday that BC whacked 2 weeks previous. Yes Jana came up big, but she did that as a freshman too when PC won. Her job was to make the big save when PC got caught out of position gambling on offense.

[vellnueve]

It's not that she's not a good player, its just that others are better, pretty much. Law did get HM.

[terry.cahill]

I actually think the BU assistants are very highly thought of and have paid their dues. They may not have the national rep King has (though Silva was a star) but they've put the time in and their efforts show.


oh really? where have they paid their dues? the beauty parlor? where did they coach before BU?