Twenty NCAA® men’s ice hockey student-athletes who excel both on and off the ice were selected as candidates today for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in hockey. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. The complete list of candidates follows this release.

An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

Jay Barriball, University of Minnesota

Chris Barton, Merrimack College

Stephane Boileau, Union College
Carter Camper, Miami University

Cory Conacher, Canisius College
Paul Dainton, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Jeff Dimmen, University of Maine

Chay Genoway, University of North Dakota

Carl Hagelin, University of Michigan

Tanner House, University of Maine

Chris Kushneriuk, Robert Morris University
Jacques Lamoureux, Air Force Academy

Broc Little, Yale University

Bryant Molle, University of Alaska-Fairbanks

Kyle Ostrow, Denver University

Chase Polacek, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Matt Read, Bemidji State University

Zach Redmond, Ferris State University
Calle Ridderwall, University of Notre Dame

Evan Stephens, Dartmouth College

Goaltenders:
Scott Darling (previous galleries: one      two)

Louis Domingue
Mike Lee

Mark Visentin

Forwards:
Justin Bernhardt
Evan Bloodoff
Chris Brown (previous gallery)

Rylan Galiardi
Philip Lane
Oscar Lindberg (previous gallery)
Colin Long (previous gallery)
Josh Lunden
Blair Riley
Jordan Szwarz
Matt Watkins

Defensemen:
Mathieu Brodeur
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (previous gallery)
Brandon Gormley
Nick Ross
Michael Stone
Chris Summers

Justin Weller

Chad Kolarik to Columbus; Alex Picard to Phoenix

Chris Peluso to Toronto; sixth round pick to Pittsburgh

Oskar Osala and Brian Pothier to Carolina; Joe Corvo to Washington

Lee Stempniak to Phoenix; Matt Jones (and 4th & 7th round picks) to Toronto

Jeff Halpern to LA; Teddy Purcell (and 3rd round pick) to Tampa Bay

Sean Zimmerman (& conditional pick) to Vancouver; Mathieu Schneider to Phoenix

Peter Mueller and Kevin Porter to Colorado; Wojtek Wolski to Phoenix

Byron Bitz, Craig Weller (& second round pick) to Florida; Dennis Seidenberg, Matthew Bartkowski to Boston

Steven Kampfer to Boston (earlier blog gallery)  Boston Bruins article

Aaron Palushaj to Montreal (earlier blog gallery); Matt D’Agostini to Montreal

Cody Wild to Boston; Matt Marquardt to Edmonton

Brett Westgarth to Worcester Sharks (future considerations)

Kenny Roche (released by Hartford)

Mike Radja to Bridgeport (future considerations)

Matt Dalton assigned to Reading Royals by Boston

Greg Moore to Columbus; Dylan Reese to NYI

Joe Fallon to St. Louis (Peoria); Hannu Toivonen and Danny Richmond to Chicago