University of Minnesota goaltender and Penticton Vees alumnus Jack LaFontaine has won the 2020-21 Mike Richter Award as the NCAA’s top goaltender. He was also named a First-Team All-American. The winners of the major college hockey year-end awards were announced today in a live ceremony from the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh, Pa. From Mississauga, Ont., […]
University of Minnesota senior goaltender and Penticton Vees alumnus Jack LaFontaine has been named a top-three finalist for the Mike Richter Award, handed out to college hockey’s top goaltender. The 23-year-old from Mississauga, Ont. has been lights out for the Golden Gophers this season, posting a 21-6-0 record and leading his team to the Big […]
Photo credits: Rob Rasmussen (Metsa), UConn Athletic Communications (Evans), Mark Kuhlmann (Kawaguchi) In Part 1 of our postseason NCAA Roundup, we put the focus on the All-Conference Teams from the six NCAA conferences. With the college hockey regular season in the rear view, there were 30 BCHL alumni named to All-Conference or All-Rookie teams across […]
Photo credits: Mark Kuhlmann (Weatherby), Rob Rasmussen (Fawcett) It was another banner week for BCHL alumni in Division I college hockey with six players being honoured with weekly conference awards. Let’s take a look at who stood out this week in the NCAA Roundup. Big Ten 1st Star of the Week Jack LaFontaine – Senior […]
Photo credits: Rob Rasmussen (Tufto), Jonathan Knight Photography (Johnson), Ed Mailliard (Briere), Mady Salvani (Galambos) This week saw the highest number of former BCHL players rewarded with conference awards so far this year as six took home weekly honours and another two were recognized for their play in the month of December. Atlantic Hockey Player […]
With college hockey now in full swing, we have a number of BCHL alums to recognize, as six different players received weekly awards in their conference this week. Big Ten 1st Star of the Week Jack LaFontaine – Senior – University of Minnesota (Penticton Vees) LaFontaine backstopped the Golden Gophers to their fourth series sweep […]
There is just one alumni to highlight this week in the NCAA Roundup, but this player double dipped with both a national monthly award, as well as a weekly award in the Big Ten conference. Hockey Commissioner’s Association Goaltender of the Month (November) Jack LaFontaine – Senior – University of Minnesota (Penticton Vees) LaFontaine earns […]
Jay Keranen was a key part of arguably the best top-six defensive corps in all of the CJHL last year with the Prince George Spruce Kings. As someone who doesn’t play a flashy game and doesn’t always put up a lot of points, it could have been easy for some to overlook the quality of […]
The final two conferences have announced their year-end honours as the Big Ten and Hockey East named their all-conference teams this week. As usual there was plenty of former BCHL talent included on these lists. Fresh off being named Big Ten Player of the Year, it was no surprise that Michigan State forward and Salmon […]
As the march to the NCAA Frozen Four gets going, TSN has added five more television broadcasts in the month of January. The six televised games in the next six weeks are: Fri., Jan. 11 – Vermont at Massachusetts (TSN2, 4 p.m. PT) Sat., Jan. 12 – Colorado College at North Dakota (TSN, 5 p.m. […]
