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Players of the Week:  Justin Braun, UMass and Melissa Haber, BU (earlier blog galleries – 1  2)

Rookies of the Week: Alex Chiasson, BU and Elisabeth Stathopulos, UConn (earlier blog gallery)

Defensive Players of the Week: Carter Hutton, Lowell and Tara Watchorn, BU (earlier blog galleries)

Boston University defeated UConn 2-1 today to take the Hockey East championship in overtime. Tara Watchorn scored the game-winner unassisted while Mel Haber (earlier blog gallery) was in net for the Terriers.

Reading this weekend’s Hockey East release, I realized I had completely missed Nick Bonino of Boston University hitting the 100 career points mark back on January 29.

Six players have reached the milestone so far this season:

November 24: James Marcou, UMass

January 1: Ben Smith, Boston College (earlier blog gallery)

January 22: Bobby Butler, UNH (earlier blog gallery)

February 20: Kory Falite, Lowell (earlier blog gallery)

February 21: Brian Gibbons, Boston College (earlier blog galleries – 1 2)

Hoping BC Eagle Joe Whitney (earlier blog gallery) will get the needed five points to hit the century mark over the next two games to have it out of the way before the playoffs (College point totals include regular season combined with post-season points, unlike professional totals which keep the two separate. They do not include points earned during exhibition games.) With at least 2 more Hockey East quarterfinal games guaranteed or nearly guaranteed in addition to this weekend’s pair, sophomore Maine Black Bear Gustav Nyquist (86 currently) and junior Northeastern Husky Wade MacLeod (90) (earlier blog gallery) have a chance to reach the mark this year regardless of the game results.

Weekly:
Player: Lauren Cherewyk, BU and Josh Burrows, Vermont

Rookie: Elisabeth Stathopulos, UConn and Shawn Sirman, Maine

Defensive: Alexandra Garcia, UConn and Parker Milner, BC (link to earlier blog gallery)

February:

Goaltender: Parker Milner, BC (see above) and Kiera Kingston, BC

Player: Brian Flynn, Maine and Kelly Paton, UNH (links to earlier blog galleries)

Rookie: Stephane Da Costa, Merrimack (link to earlier blog gallery) and Elisabeth Stathopulos, UConn (see weekly award above)

Catching up on Hockey East awards I missed while not blogging:

January:

Player of the Month: Colby Cohen, Boston University

Goalie of the Month: Brian Foster, University of New Hampshire (link to previous blog gallery)

Rookie of the Month: Stephane Da Costa, Merrimack College (link to previous blog gallery)

Week of 12/21
Player: Brian Roloff, Vermont

Rookie: Tobias Nilsson-Roos, Vermont
Defensive Player: Rob Madore, Vermont

Week of 1/5
Player: Colby Cohen, Boston University (see above monthly award), Justin Milo, Vermont, Michelle Binning, UConn and Alyse Ruff, Providence

Rookie: Chris Rawlings, Northeastern (previous galleries 1  2), Brittany Esposito, Northeastern

Defensive Player: Carter Hutton, Lowell, Genevieve Lacasse, Providence (links to previous blog gallery)

Week of 1/11
Player: Bobby Butler, UNH (link to previous blog gallery), Scott Campbell, Lowell, Melissa Anderson, BU (previous blog galleries 1 2)

Rookie: Wade Megan, BU, Kristina Lavoie, UNH

Defensive Player: Brian Foster, UNH, Genevieve Lacasse, Providence, Leah Sulyma, Northeastern (links to previous blog galleries)

Week of 1/18
Player: Cam Atkinson, Boston College, Jean O’Neill, Providence

Rookie: Sebastian Stalberg, Vermont, Catie Walsh, BC

Defensive Player: Alex Beaudry, Providence, Paul Dainton, UMass, Cristin Allen, UConn (links to previous blog galleries)

Week of 1/25
Player: Jeremy Dehner, Lowell, Alyse Ruff, Providence (see w/ 1/5)

Rookie: Brandon Brodhag, Merrimack, Kelly Horan, UConn

Defensive Player: Brian Foster, UNH (link to previous blog gallery), Florence Schelling (previous blog galleries – 1 2 3)

Week of 2/1
Player: Chris Barton, Merrimack, Cristin Allen, UConn (link to previous blog gallery)

Rookie: Klas Leidermark, Maine, Kristina Lavoie (see 1/11)

Defensive Player: Andrew Braithwaite, Merrimack, Kieran Millan, BU, Alexandra Garcia, UConn, Kristen Olychuck, Vermont

Week of 2/8
Player: Brian Gibbons, Boston College (link to previous blog gallery), Kristen Olychuck, Vermont (see 2/1)

Rookie: Sebastian Stalberg, Vermont (see 1/18), Nicole Anderson, Providence (link to previous blog gallery)
Defensive Player: Scott Darling, Maine, Leah Sulyma, Northeastern (links to previous blog galleries)