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Player of the Year:  Marc Cheverie, Denver
Defensive Player of the Year: Brendan Smith, Wisconsin

Rookie of the Year:  Danny Kristo, North Dakota (previous blog gallery)

Student-Athlete of the Year: Eli Vlaisavljevich, Michigan Tech – read this on the kid; mega-brains
Coach of the Year: George Gwozdecky, Denver

First Team

Rhett Rakhshani, Denver (previous blog gallery)
Blake Geoffrion, Wisconsin

Jack Connolly, Minnesota-Duluth
Brendan Smith, Wisconsin (see Defensive POY above)
Patrick Wiercioch, Denver
Marc Cheverie, Denver

Second Team

Justin Fontaine, Minnesota-Duluth
Ryan Lasch, St. Cloud
Tyler Ruegsegger, Denver

Ryan McDonagh, Wisconsin

Nate Prosser, Colorado College
Brad Eidsness, North Dakota

Third Team

Michael Davies, Wisconsin

Joe Colborne, Denver

Garrett Roe, St. Cloud

Garrett Raboin, St. Cloud
Chay Genoway, North Dakota

Dan Dunn, St. Cloud

Rookies

Danny Kristo, North Dakota (see ROY award above)
Craig Smith, Wisconsin
Rylan Schwartz, Colorado College
Matt Donovan, Denver (earlier blog gallery)

Justin Schultz, Wisconsin
Joe Howe, Colorado College

Thanks to College Hockey Inc. for pointing out the men’s sweep.

Best Goalie: Ryan Miller, Michigan State University
Best Defenseman: Brian Rafalski, University of Wisconsin (earlier blog gallery)
Best Forward: Jonathan Toews, University of North Dakota

For the women, 2 out of 3 played college hockey:
Best Goaltender: Shannon Szabados (the exception – she does play “college” hockey, but it is on a men’s team in the ACAC, not NCAA)
Best Defenseman: Molly Engstrom, University of Wisconsin

Best Forward: Meghan Agosta, Mercyhurst

From Ken Daneyko to Mike Brennan, my favorite players are often defensemen, the more D-oriented the better. It didn’t feel right to highlight the high scorers in the earlier post on completing the U20 camp galleries, especially since the US D shut out the Russians in one game and held them to only 1 goal in two others (the Russians scored 6 in Friday’s game, but that’s just being a polite host, right?). So here are the 10 defensemen who took part in the full camp. Posted previously – Cam Fowler and John Moore.

John Carlson (Washington Capitals):

Adam Comrie (Guelph Storm/Florida Panthers):

Matt Donovan (University of Denver/New York Islanders):

Jake Gardiner (University of Wisconsin/Anaheim Ducks):

Nick Leddy (University of Minnesota/Minnesota Wild):

Aaron Ness (University of Minnesota/New York Islanders):

David Warsofsky (Boston University/St. Louis Blues):

Chris Wideman (Miami University/Ottawa Senators):

San Jose Sharks:
Good: Benn Ferriero scored another goal & assist in the Shark’s 3-2 loss (previously scored only regulation goal in a 2-1 SO loss) – Head coach on Ferriero – “…every night, he’s doing something that we like. There’s some players that we kind of penciled into certain positions,” the coach continued. “This guy’s nipping at their butts right now. I think it’s great competition. There’s some that have to pick it up.”  Maybe he should bite them on the ass instead and put them on IR and out of his way :-).
Sad, not Bad: Nick Petrecki was among those sent to Worcester today. It’s probably better for him in the long run so can’t say it is bad.

Nashville:
@#$%^: Francis Bouillon added – currently on a tryout (confirmed w/ Preds’ official twitterer), but contract agreed to assuming he makes the team. Nothing against Bouillon – but that puts him in Jonathon Blum’s way.

Chicago:
@#$%&!!!!!!: Despite him helping to break my heart in 2006, can’t help but love that Stinkin’ Badger. Sorry to hear Adam Burish is out for 6 months with torn ACL.

Cincinnati Cyclones (hey, I needed to come up with another positive bit of news):
Good: Chris Mueller – who helped break my heart in 2007 – has signed per MSU_Hockey on Twitter.

Re: Twitter – I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I do post on Twitter when I post here, so if you’d like an alert to new content, feel free to “follow me“.

The Carolina Hurricanes won the tournament in their first appearance and were led in scoring by Zach Boychuk:

Drayson Bowman – Hurricanes website article, previous blog gallery – and Jamie McBain who went pro following his junior year at the University of Wisconsin were among those tied for second in scoring.

Rasmus Rissanen attended the tournament, but was unable to play due to injury.